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ETERNUS SF Express V14.1 User's Guide

1.2.1 Overview of Express

Express is an easy to use software addition to ETERNUS Disk storage system, in order to facilitate management of ETERNUS based storage as well as leverage ETERNUS functionality like Snapshots, Cloning or Remote copies.


Multiple storage management

Multiple ETERNUS Disk storage systems can be managed and monitored with one console. In addition, FibreCAT SX Disk storage system can be monitored.


Health and status overview

The internal configurations of Disk storage systems, such as volumes and RAID groups are displayed in a list, so that they can easily be checked. Besides, the integrated management of multiple storage systems makes it easy to notice any error occurrence even if you do not pay attention to each individual storage system.


Copy setting wizard

Hardware settings that should be performed before using Advanced Copy functions provided by ETERNUS Disk storage system can easily be done using a wizard.


Advanced Copy

For Snapshots, Clones and Remote copies that are the Advanced Copy functions provided by ETERNUS Disk storage system, you can set copy parameters and copy executions on the GUI window with ease.

Also, using the command line interface for Express enables a series of copy operations, so that the above functions are available for purposes of making scripts to work together with other programs and executing copy periodically using an OS scheduler.

Types of Advanced Copy are as follows.


Performance management

The command line operations allow 1 hour ETERNUS hardware performance information to be output into a CSV file.