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SanXfer Storage Software
The First SAN Booting Server Migration Tool
SanXfer™ software is the industry’s first Storage Area Network (SAN) utility for migrating Windows® - based SAN booting systems to new hardware, regardless of vendor, model or attached devices. Unlike manual migration methods, which are error-prone and can take days to complete, SanXfer accurately replaces, upgrades, clones and provisions servers within minutes. What’s more, for organizations that are not yet booting from a SAN, SanXfer makes it easy to convert a local booting system to a SAN booting system.
SanXfer facilitates storage, disaster recovery (DR) and server management administration in SAN environments by expanding server hardware options, simplifying administration and DR, and increasing IT environment reliability. SanXfer makes IT more efficient and lowers operational expenses by improving the use of existing servers while reducing deployment, administration, backup and disaster recovery costs. By promoting and protecting SAN-booting systems, SanXfer allows IT departments to replace server hardware with dissimilar hardware quickly and easily and to maximize the benefits of SANs for all enterprise storage needs.
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| Convert SAN booting system to a Local disk booting system | |
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| Quickly Replace or Upgrade a server to any hardware | |
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| Replace a Physical Server with a Virtual Machine (P2V) | |
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| Licensed for repeated use | |
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| Fast Provisioning of new servers | |
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| Remote (DR) site server reconfiguration | |
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| Multi-site SanXfer Library Server Synchronization | |
SAN Booting made easy
SanXfer can easily migrate your existing servers’ boot disks into the SAN. By moving away from local boot disks, you gain the reliability and manageability advantages of a SAN for the critical boot disks. SanXfer Best Practice: remove the local disk to eliminate critical data loss when that server is retired (eliminates PCI, SOX, and HIPAA related data breach concerns).
Recovery of failed Servers
Recovering a dead server traditionally meant either restoring from the last backup or a painful reinstall of the OS and application. SanXfer eliminates the pain of recovering a failed server by allowing you to quickly and easily replace a failed server’s hardware with hardware from any vendor in minutes.
Upgrading Servers
Servers that are functioning correctly, but are simply underpowered, pose a time consuming problem for IT departments. With SanXfer, upgrading a server can be done in minutes; there is no longer the need to attempt to build a new server at an exactly matching OS, application, patch, and hotfix level. SanXfer gives you the freedom to replace a server with hardware from any vendor in minutes.
Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery is a painful topic for many companies. Government regulations and internal company policies may vary, but the bottom line is the longer it takes to get your company up at a remote site, the more it costs you.
SanXfer provides a new opportunity to streamline your DR process.
If your company is already replicating a SAN to a remote site, SanXfer is absolutely the right solution for you. At a remote site, SanXfer can quickly reconfigure SAN boot disks to work with whatever hardware you have available, or to work with a Virtual Machine. Within minutes, rather than hours or days, your servers can be up and fully functioning.
Datacenter Upgrade
By using SanXfer along with vendor supplied SAN-to-SAN copy tools, migrating SAN servers from one datacenter to another is fast and simple. SAN migrations can be done at a fraction of the time and cost of other methods, with greater accuracy and simplicity.
Rapid Server Provisioning/Cloning
SanXfer can be used to copy a standard build, or an existing server, and quickly provision a new server. SanXfer automatically performs the changes required to boot the new copy from whatever new hardware is selected.
SanXfer Support
Supported Platforms:
SanXfer Library Server: Windows 2000, XP, 2003, 2003R2, Vista, 2008, 2008R2, Win7
SanXfer Client: Windows XP, 2003, 2003R2, 2008, 2008R2, Vista, Win 7
SanXfer also works with VMware®, Hyper-V, and Xen.
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