The Storage Heaven Mirage MFCA480 disk-based virtual tape library is a high performance backup and restore unit demanded by today’s growing businesses to efficiently protect critical business data. The MFCA480 virtual tape library emulates tape drives using SCSI RAID systems to increase the performance and reliability of the backup, restore and archive process. The MFCA480 is seen by the backup application as a conventional tape library, but provides more reliable high performance backup and restore tasks typical of RAID systems. The MFCA480 VTL is scalable and can grow with future requirements by attaching up to a total of eight RAID systems to the MFCA480 unit.
The Storage Heaven MFCA480's Embedded Archive Engine (EAE) automatically copies the “virtual tape cartridges” to the physical drive at tape streaming speeds as an independent, server-free, background task. Copying, in this high speed streaming mode, minimizes wear (shoe shining) on the tape drive. Backup software can perform backup and restore requests instantly using the MFCA480, while off-site tapes are still being copied by the EAE.
The MFCA480 supports direct attached server (DAS) as well as Storage area network (SAN) attached configurations. Hardware integration is simple. It’s also seamless to operating systems and backup applications.
MFCA480 complements investments already made in tape drives, libraries and application software. The MFCA480 also enables users to minimize changes to their current configuration. The MFCA480 is simply added as another tape device. The backup software can now backup or restore to or from the MFCA480. The number of virtual tape slots and drives is user selectable and up to 4 virtual tape drives are supported.
The MFCA480 delivers immediate performance improvements to backup and restore applications with a sustained speed of over 500 GB/hour.
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