Live Volume acts as a storage hypervisor, actively mapping one volume to two Dell Compellent arrays at the same time. This allows organizations to shift volumes between systems for high availability and continuous access to data. With Live Volume, data is not physically bound to any particular array or data center. Instead, all volumes can be accessed and shared from multiple locations, making Live Volume a key enabler for virtualization and the cloud.
The Live Volume Advantage
- Fully integrated platform feature that supports Thin Provisioning and Automated Tiered Storage
- Fraction of the cost of other solutions, with no additional hardware, server agents or costly appliances required
- Works with multiple hypervisors, including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer
- Imposes no limit on the number of volumes that can be created, shared, deleted or updated
- Allows organizations to scale out cost effectively, laying the foundation for a grid of arrays operating as one