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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.
SAN Booting made easy
SanXfer can easily migrate your existing servers’ boot disks into the SAN without reinstalls or waiting for future budget cycles or server upgrades.
Replacing/Upgrading Servers
SanXfer solves the problem of replacing servers that have either died or need to be replaced with faster, more efficient hardware. SanXfer gives you the freedom to replace a server with hardware from any vendor in minutes.
Disaster Recovery
SanXfer can replicate the boot disk to your DR site, be pointed to whatever DR-site server hardware is available to a boot LUN in the replicated SAN, and SanXfer will reconfigure it to boot correctly. DR-site servers can be up and running in minutes instead of hours or even days.
Rapid Server Provisioning/Cloning
SanXfer can also be used in conjunction with SAN replication technologies to copy a standard build, or an existing server and automatically perform the changes required to boot the new copy from new hardware.
Support
SanXfer supports Windows 2008, Windows 2003 and Windows XP, and integrates with VMware®.