ECX

What is ECX?

Copy management of the storage array.

Application-aware automation for snapshot, replication, and cloning of the storage array.

By fundamentally modernizing many common IT processes, it dramatically simplifies copy data management, enabling automation and orchestration of copies of data that can be leveraged in the enterprise and in the cloud for a variety of value-generating use cases.

Automated copy data management

IT teams can leverage ecx's key policy engine, catalog, and reporting to dramatically improve IT operations that rely on copies of data, including DR, testing and development, business analytics, local recovery, and more. It enhances operations by using automated service-level copy policies that are consistent, reliable, and easily repeatable. Without the same, functions that rely heavily on copies are often managed using a complex combination of scripts, tools, or other products not optimized for copy management. With this you have a holistic and simplified approach that greatly reduces cycle time and frees up the team to manage more productive projects.

Next-generation data protection and disaster recovery

With model-based management and application-aware copy orchestration, a powerful solution for next-generation data protection and recovery. You can completely skip the traditional backup and move to a take-and-replicate model, which provides near-instant protection and quick recovery. Compared to the slow restorations of traditional backup, it allows IT to instantly assemble and access copies that are already in the production storage environment. Catalogs all snapshots and replicas and alerts whether a snap or replication job has been lost or failed. Disaster recovery can be fully automated and tested without interruption.

Automated development and testing

The speed and effectiveness of development and testing processes are often limited by the time it takes to provision THE IT infrastructure. Typical organizations take weeks to deploy the infrastructure; even the most efficient can take several days. The development/test infrastructure can be expanded in minutes, in an automated, scheduled or easily on-demand button. You can reduce development/test infrastructure management time by up to 99%.

Databases

More than any other IT workload, databases drive copy creation. It provides application-sensitive functionality for working with critical enterprise databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, SAP HANA, and InterSystems Caché. Automated log management provides the means for point restores to any transaction point between storage snapshots. Data masking integration provides secure access to datasets that do not violate compliance regulations. Provides a mechanism for creating masked snapshot copies in advance, which can be provisioned for as many test or development workstations as needed, dramatically simplifying management. The integrated pre- and post-snapshot script enables customization to control the settings and detailed parameters unique to each instance of the database.

Enjoy hybrid cloud computing

Powerful hybrid cloud facilitator, enabling IT to leverage cloud computing capabilities. Not only does it help move data to the cloud, it also creates live application environments that can leverage the cloud's cheapest elastic computing infrastructure. You can increase workloads and then reliably reduce them. This maximizes the economic benefit of the cloud - just by using and paying for infrastructure as needed. Users get a 3-to-1 cost benefit by leveraging the cloud for certain use cases; or put another way, an ROI of more than 300%.

DevOps

Organizations are increasingly adopting DevOps to faster deliver new applications to the market. What enables IT staff to do - for the first time - is to use your existing storage infrastructure to enable DevOps and meet the needs of development teams for rapid infrastructure deployment. ECX templates define policies for infrastructure deployment, and the entire system is accessible through the REST ECX API, which is a key requirement for DevOps. DevOps teams get "infrastructure as code." Instead of following legacy processes to order IT resources, developers include infrastructure deployment commands directly into their development systems. Predefined scripts and plug-ins for popular DevOps tools simplify infrastructure.

System Requirements

Virtual machine:

vSphere 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5 ou 6.7

64-bit dual core machine

16 GB of memory

400 GB of storage

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