FalconStor Virtual Tape Library
FalconStor VTL provides backup to disk. No need to change your backuproutines - your backup software just sees the familiar tapedrives writing at disk speed, e.g. 200MB/s.
- Virtual tapes on disk enhance
the reliability, speed, and availability of backups.
- Keep your backup routines and get features only
available with disk-based backups.
- Data protection for SAN and DAS environments
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| Benefits |
| Reliability |
- eliminates media and mechanical errors in backup
- reduces manual intervention
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| Availability |
- Remote offsite replication of virtual tapes provides
disaster protection
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| Consolidation |
- Centralizes management &
consolidates backup resources
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| Speed |
- Fast backup to disk
- avoid 'shoeshining', i.e. tapedrives that stops, waits
for data, starts, writes, stops ...
- Rapid data recovery
- no tapechanges or spooling when restoring from disk
- Support for multiple concurrent sessions
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| Archiving |
- Export to tape for archiving purposes
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| Fast deployment |
- Integrates seamlessly with existing backup software
and policy
- Easy to deploy — comparable to adding a new tape drive
or library to your environment
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With today’s dwindling IT budgets, administrators and other IT professionals are aggressively searching for ways to maximize investments in their existing storage infrastructure. This fact, coupled with shrinking backup windows, and escalating data growth, and the growing need for a cost effective, reliable, business
continuity solution are pushing the limits of internal resources
There is a solution: FalconStor’s unique VirtualTape Library (VTL) solution, powered by
FalconStors award-winning IPStor®
technology, consolidates the management of backup resources while enhancing the reliability of backup operations and accelerating the speed of recovery. FalconStor VTL
leverages industry standard high speed disk to provision virtual tape drives and libraries to backup servers attached to an iSCSI/IP or Fibre Channel (FC) storage area network (SAN), without the need to change existing backup software configurations and therefore preserving the investment in backup policy and IT
staff’s operating knowledge.
FalconStor VTL Maximizes Backup Performance and Reliability
FalconStor VTL increases the speed and reliability of existing third party backup applications by using disks to
emulate industry standard tape libraries.
FalconStor VTL leverages the Fibre Channel (FC) or IP protocol to transfer data to and restore data from
disk-based virtual tape at ultra high speeds. And, FalconStor VTL maximizes reliability, and improves backup and restore success rate, by eliminating robotic mechanical failures and physical tape media errors.
Reliability is a critical IT concern, and with FalconStor’s VTL solution, users can perform storage
controller-aware I/O load balancing, and leverage the transparent failover and fail-back capabilities of a
vast array of intelligent storage systems. Users also have the ability to configure two VTL appliances
as an active-active cluster to maximize service availability.
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FalconStor VTL Reduces Material and Administrative Costs
of Backup and Restore
Adding to the FalconStor VTL’s inherent ability to aggregate and provision backup resources, as well
as virtual tape drives/libraries over FC or IP SAN, this unique solution offers a new level of centralized
management via the IP-based delta replication option, which replicates a virtual tape cartridge over IP
in a peer-to-peer or many-to-one configuration, based on policy. FalconStor VTL significantly reduces the administrative burden placed on IT managers and staff by empowering users to initiate full disk or file recovery through rollback or mounted snapshots. FalconStor VTL also eliminates the need to rely on a library sharing option to coordinate access to a FC tape
drive/library.
FalconStor VTL Delivers Seamless Integration
FalconStor’s ongoing interoperability testing with leading hardware and
software solutions ensures seamless integration of VTL into an existing IT
environment, while optimizing the overall performance and functionality of VTL
and other technologies used by FalconStor customers today.
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TCO
and ROI Benefits
| Minimizes Total Cost of Ownership |
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Centralizes the provisioning of disk-based virtual tape
drives/libraries over Fibre Channel (FC) or IP |
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Facilitates tape vaulting via
IP-based replication |
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Seamlessly integrates into an existing backup
infrastructure |
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Simplifies backup
consolidation via peer-to-peer replication |
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Provides Plug & Play installation with existing backup
servers without reconfiguration |
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Allows Administrators to use
the NDMP Protocol to protect NAS appliances |
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| Maximizes Performance and Return on Investment |
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Leverages FC and IP SAN to enable backup software to
transfer data to/from a disk-based virtual tape at ultra high
speeds |
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Eliminates media/mechanical
failure during backup/restore operations |
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Maximizes service availability via active-active cluster
configuration |
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Leverages failover and
fail-back capabilities of industry leading intelligent
storage controllers for maximum availability and
reliability |
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SAN-based virtual tape
enables third party backup software to rapidly restore
data and reduce downtime |
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Optimizes investment and
utilization of existing backup environment |
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