Managed Snapshot Services (MSS)
iQstor’s Managed Snapshot Services (MSS) provides quick and easy virtual duplication of your critical data – at your fingertips when you need it. Using MSS, you can maximize the limited backup windows available for today’s 24x7 business applications with non-disruptive snapshots that ensure data availability, require fractional space (typically 10% to 20% compared to a full copy) and enable a zero-backup window full performance backup. With MSS, businesses can easily verify functionality, reliability and accuracy of modifications to production – without impacting production data – by instantly creating writeable test databases that require little space and serve to improve accuracy of application testing. iQstor’s MSS feature can also provide a solution by making the snapshot image immediately available for situations where production data has been accidentally corrupted.

MSS is especially useful for applications requiring near-instantaneous point-in-time virtual copies of the data. MSS offers users the ability to access their data from any point-in-time without having to stop their daily activities for routine tasks such as system backups.

Volume Copy Services (VCS)
iQstor’s Volume Copy Services (VCS) feature provides a comprehensive mirroring solution within the iQstor storage system. VCS creates a duplicate physical copy of a volume (vdisk) to effectively manage information growth and data protection.

The volume copy is an independent vdisk that can be assigned to any host or application without affecting the performance of the original production volume. With VCS, companies have an excellent tool for decision support, system analysis, and application testing, bringing an exact physical duplicate of source data for single or multiple users.

Intelligent Capacity Management Services (ICM)
In today’s data center environments, the storage system’s ability to automatically expand the virtual disk space to accommodate fi le system growth is one of the key IT requirements for continuous data center operation. To achieve the goals of 24x7 system uptime and storage availability, iQstor’s Intelligent Capacity Management Services (ICM) allows continuous monitoring of storage consumption to easily prevent the system from running out of storage space.

The intelligent policy-based management component of ICM allows the data center administrator to automate file system and disk partition processes, setting thresholds and policies to provision capacity from one or more storage pools without server interruption. This intelligent process eliminates costly downtime associated with traditional physical disk upgrades and with re-building and re-formatting operating system partitions that are due to unforeseen changes in storage requirements, bringing workflow efficiencies with lower TCO and higher ROI.