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 a full suite of 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.
WHY IT MATTERS
Key Features
Increase Performance. StorGuard™ runs on its own compute servers, so advanced data services never compete with existing disk arrays for CPU or RAM. Storage performance will go up, not down.
High Availability with No Single Point of Failure. At least two StorGuard servers sit between your mission-critical applications and their storage. Synchronous replication mirrors every write to two independent, heterogeneous disk arrays, either in the same datacenter or across a metro region.
Asynchronous Replication at Any Distance. When sites are farther apart than a metro region, StorGuard replicates asynchronously to a remote site or cloud. You can switch source and target at any time.
Fast, Application-Consistent Snapshots. Snapshot individual LUNs or consistency groups almost instantly. Optional agents pause mission-critical applications before each snapshot, giving administrators and backup software a reliable recovery point.
Continuous Data Protection and Ransomware Recovery. StorGuard records every write to every LUN with microsecond granularity. You can roll applications back to within seconds before a ransomware attack or other disaster.
Disaster Recovery with Intelligent Failover/Failback. If a site goes down, StorGuard fails over your entire environment, including compute, networking, and storage, to another site or cloud. It fails back when you’re ready. It integrates with VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V and supports P2P, P2V, V2V, and V2P.
Your Hardware, One Console. StorGuard works with any brand of iSCSI or Fibre Channel disk array, so every site keeps its preferred vendors. StorSight® manages all StorGuard instances across sites and clouds, with secure multitenancy, RBAC, reporting, billing, smart alerts, and key management.
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.