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Product overview

SnapDrive for UNIX is a host-based storage and data management solution for UNIX environments. SnapDrive for UNIX simplifies data management, improves data availability, and increases the reliability of application data through simplified storage provisioning and file system consistent Snapshot copies.

You can use SnapDrive for UNIX as a stand-alone product or along with other SnapManager products that run on UNIX. SnapDrive for UNIX deployed along with SnapManager enables you to create application-consistent data backup.

SnapDrive highlights

SnapDrive for UNIX enables you to simplify storage management tasks. Some of the tasks that you can perform using SnapDrive for UNIX are:

In addition to these major features, SnapDrive offers the following advantages:
  • Enhanced clone-split operation
  • Volume-based SnapRestore (VBSR)
  • Command-line interface (CLI) options
  • Data collection utility
  • Support for storage system renaming
  • Support for Fibre Channel RDM LUNs in Linux guest operating systems