Welcome to SANworks Enterprise Volume Manager for Sun Solaris
EVM is a Web-enabled application program that allows you to establish an EVM Network of up to ten computers that can participate in automated storage unit replication jobs on Compaq StorageWorks MA 6000, MA/RA 8000 and EMA/ESA 12000 Fibre Channel subsystems.
Each EVM Network and its associated StorageWorks subsystem can be remotely managed from a central location using a Web browser. Access control features are included in EVM's HTTP server.
The illustration below shows a typical EVM Network. The EVM Server and EVM Clients are noted with red and orange dots, respectively.
EVM Storage Unit Replication Features
EVM provides up to two methods of copying storage units: clone and snapshot. To select either method requires but a single click on the EVM graphical user interface. All of the underlying StorageWorks CLI commands that are required for these methods have been automated and incorporated into EVM. You can click on the blue hypertext links to find out more about each method.
EVM Graphical User Interface
Through an easy-to-use Web browser interface, EVM provides the means to create, manage and run storage replication jobs on the StorageWorks subsystem. Completing just four simple steps with the EVM Create Job wizard defines most jobs. The most complex jobs can be created in six steps using the wizard. EVM job pages provide you with the ability to create, run, validate, monitor, review and delete jobs. The EVM Network View and EVM Storage View pages provide graphical displays of the available resources on the EVM Network.
EVM Job Interaction with External Applications
EVM provides a simple, yet powerful set of features that allow you to design storage unit replication jobs that can be seamlessly combined with external applications. For example, it is easy to create:
EVM-database jobs that create nearline backup units on the StorageWorks subsystem.
EVM-database-backup jobs that copy online databases and mount them on backup servers for automated tape backups.
EVM-database jobs that copy databases and mount them on another server for data mining, or testing.
Creating NonStop™ Solutions
By using script files and scheduling applications, it is possible to create job sequences that can be run 24 hours a day, seven days a week.