iQstor’s Volume Copy Services (VCS) feature provides a comprehensive replication solution within your storage network, creating a duplicate physical copy of a volume (vdisk) to effectively manage information growth and data protection.

With VCS you can easily:

• Deliver a comprehensive local mirroring solution within your storage network to effectively manage information growth and data protection
• Enhance efficiencies by allowing companies to avoid costly interruptions to production volumes
• Provide a platform for performance, application and software testing for IT administrators to easily test system modifications
• Allow non-disruptive backups by splitting the mirror and backing up the copy volume

Applications

Performance, Feature/Functionality and Software Testing - Many forms of testing can benefit by running from a secondary copy (local mirror) of the data rather than its original, and VCS can help you guarantee your results before you take the modifications live. The list of these activities can cover a wide range of daily business applications including performance testing, feature/function testing, software maintenance and new software release/version updates.

These activities share a common goal – to discover errors, duplicate errors and fix errors – and it is imperative to conduct them on data in a non-production environment. VCS brings you a way to test and refine modifications in an up-to-the-minute environment without damaging production data, speeding software changes and reducing downtime for your business.

Database Integrity Checks - VCS allows you to create local mirrors of your database files and ensure the integrity of corporate data, delivering a solution that provides IT administrators with a quick and easy way to keep valuable databases operational. With VCS, administrators can avoid the downtime associated with intensive and time-consuming integrity routines and implement a regular schedule of database integrity checks, finding and correcting corrupted data before it can put an organization at risk.

Data Replication and Distribution - VCS allows you to easily create locally mirrored volumes for end-of-shift or end-of-day review or distribution between departments or to branch offices, ensuring that all facets of your organization have access to the most up to date information. Using VCS, you can quickly and easily provide regularly scheduled or nightly updates of heavily used and master files to others in your organization, increasing efficiencies, workflow and productivity.