534 DS8800 Performance Monitoring and Tuning
15.1 IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
The IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller is designed to increase the flexibility of your
storage infrastructure by introducing an in-band virtualization layer between the servers and
the storage systems. The SAN Volume Controller can enable a tiered storage environment to
increase flexibility in storage management. The SAN Volume Controller combines the
capacity from multiple disk storage systems into a single storage pool, which can be
managed from a central point, which is simpler to manage and helps increase disk capacity
utilization. With the SAN Volume Controller, you can apply SAN Volume Controller advanced
Copy Services across storage systems ...