The IBM System Storage™ SAN Volume Controller (SVC) enables a single point of control for disparate, heterogeneous storage resources to help support improved business application availability and greater resource utilization. The objective is to identify all storage resources in your IT infrastructure and to make sure they’re used to the advantage of your business—and do it quickly, efficiently, in real time, while avoiding administrative cost.

SAN Volume Controller is designed to pool storage volumes from IBM and non-IBM storage systems into a single reservoir of capacity for centralized management. SAN Volume Controller is designed to hide the boundaries among disk systems, which helps you to focus on managing storage as a resource to meet business requirements and not as a set of boxes. SAN Volume Controller helps you to set business process goals based on all the storage resources at your disposal rather than allowing the storage resources to dictate what your business can accomplish.

SAN Volume Controller combines hardware and software into an integrated,modular solution. Using IBM System x™ server technology in clustered pairs, SAN Volume Controller is designed to avoid potential single points of failure. SAN Volume Controller software is designed to operate as a highly available cluster supporting high performance and ease of use.

SAN Volume Controller is designed to help increase the amount of storage capacity that is available to host applications.By pooling the capacity from multiple disk systems within the storage area network (SAN), it helps enable storage administrators to reach beyond traditional “islands” of SAN storage and deploy storage in ways that can help best meet the needs of host applications. Scala