Fujitsu ETERNUS SF

Flexible Data Management

The comprehensive and flexible data management for ETERNUS DX storage systems and ALl-Flash Arrays offer convenient, consistent and powerful tools with enterprise class functionality even for the entry class.

Innovative and advanced functions increase operational efficiency and help to implement appropriate service levels. Complementing the integrated ETERNUS hardware storages and the ETERNUS SF storage management software is used to support overall daily operations within the entire storage infrastructure. ETERNUS system's embedded management, together with ETERNUS SF, serve as the overarching basis for Fujitsu's highly efficient Flexible Data Management.

It offers the same usability for all operational workflows throughout the ETERNUS system, from entry-level systems up to the high-end models.

Configuration and Correlation Management

- Device detection, zoning and access path management
- Visualization of the entire SAN infrastructure - storage systems, switches and servers including virtual machines
- Wizard-assisted setup of major features
- Customizable dashboard view

Fault Management

- Permanent status monitoring and health check of the entire infrastructure
- Local or remote copy alerts of failure events

Performance Management

- Performance monitoring of storage devices and SAN infrastructure
- Setting of performance thresholds and alert policies
- Automated Quality of Service management based on performance requirements

Automated Storage Tiering Management

- Setup of profiles, policies and tier pools for automatic data movement

Replication and Backup Management

- Comprehensive functions for local and remote replication
- Non-stop backup for all major database systems
- Backup support for virtualized server environments

Disaster Recovery Management

- Setup and management of synchronous and asynchronous array-based replication
- Automated failover in virtualized server environments

Business Continuity Management

- Transparent failover between storage systems
- Automatic and manual failover

Energy Consumption Management

- Monitoring of power consumption and temperature
- Setting of thresholds and policies for disk spin-down

Benefits

- Reduces operational cost through centralized management and uniform administrative tools
- Lowers the workload and training needs of administrative staff
- Allows comprehensive views of system status and system health
- Enables preemptive fault countermeasures
- Reduces time for fault and incident detection and error fix
- Significantly improve application data access, availability and performance
- Helps to avoid, identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks
- Increases quality of service
- Lowers acquisition cost while increasing I/O performance
- Reduces total cost of ownership, energy consumption and system footprint
- Replication and backup tailorable to business needs
- Frees server resources for operative tasks
- Prevents loss of vital information and data
- Ensures continous business operations, services and production under any circumstances
- Round the clock application availability
- Ease-of-use and affordable business continuity
- Decreases expenditures for power and cooling