StorGuard™
AT A GLANCE
StorGuard™ software runs on x86 servers configured into a high-availability cluster that is placed between mission-critical application servers and the SAN disk arrays that they use for storage. StorGuard provides advanced data services without burdening the CPU and RAM of the underlying disk arrays, providing a cost-effective solution to acquiring expensive disk array features.
StorGuard provides 6 advanced data services for underlying disk arrays. It is 100% software that runs on industry-standard servers, or as VMs on-premises or in clouds. It is ideal for environments that have heterogeneous disk arrays. The HA configured StorGuard servers are accessed over FC or iSCSI. Because it runs on its own compute servers, StorGuard does not impact the performance of underlying disk arrays. High availability can span a datacenter, metro-region, or hybrid cloud. And StorGuard includes secure multitenancy, RBAC, and tenant bill-back.
FEATURES
Increase Performance. StorGuard runs on its own compute servers, providing advanced data services without burdening the CPU of the underlying disk arrays. Storage performance will go up, not down.
No Single Point of Failure. StorGuard uses a minimum of 2 compute servers to ensure there is no single point of failure between the mission-critical application servers and the disk arrays they use for storage.
Lightning-fast Snapshots. StorGuard provides lightning-fast snapshots of LUNs or groups of LUNs placed into a consistency group, providing safe recovery points the storage administrator and backup software.
Hardware Choice. StorGuard utilizes any brand of iSCSI or Fibre Channel disk array, so each customer site can continue to use their hardware vendors of choice.
Synchronous Replication. StorGuard replicates writes to LUNs across two potentially heterogenous disk arrays located within a metro-region using a no-single-point of failure architecture.
Asynchronous Replication. When distances are greater than a metro-region, StorGuard offers asynchronous replication to the remote site. Source and target can be switched at any time.
Failover/Failback. Full disaster recovery including intelligent failover and failback of an entire datacenter including compute servers, networking, and storage – that may span sites and clouds.
Continuous Data Protection. StorGuard provides continuous data protection with millisecond granularity to deliver fast recoveries to within seconds before a ransomware attack or other disaster.
Application-consistent Snapshots. StorGuard can optionally run agents on key mission-critical application servers that quiesce them prior to a snapshot being taken, for a rock-solid recovery point.
Management. StorSight® provides secure, multi-tenant management of all StorGuard instances running across sites and clouds and includes RBAC, detailed reports, billing, smart alerts, and key management.
Disaster Recovery as a Service. Should an entire site fail, StorGuard can perform an Intelligent failover / failback to another site or cloud. It integrates with vSphere and Hyper-V manager, and does P2P, P2V, V2V and V2P.
Ransomware Recovery. StorGuard keeps a journal of all writes to each storage LUN so the mission-critical application servers can be restored to within seconds before the attack happened.
Data Migration. StorGuard is commonly used to migrate data between heterogeneous disk arrays located within the datacenter, sites, and clouds using synchronous or asynchronous replication.
Metro-Region High Availability. Writes from the mission-critical application servers are mirrored to two independent heterogeneous disk arrays located within the datacenter or separated by a metro-region.
USE CASES
Data Migration across Disk Arrays, Sites, or Clouds. Safely and efficiently migrate data to meet business requirements. Migrate via synchronous or asynchronous replication of LUNs, with non-disruptive data movement from an old to a new disk array, new site, or cloud.
Continuous Data Protection. Be prepared for a ransomware attack. StorGuard captures a continuous journal of all blocks written to LUNs, allowing you to roll back any LUN to a prior point in time with microsecond granularity.
High Availability. Ensure high uptime for your mission-critical applications by mirroring LUNs to two disk arrays whether in the same datacenter or across a metro-region or even further.
Disaster Recovery. Rapidly recover from a site-wide disaster with multiple host machines for intelligent failover / failback to another site or cloud.
