Data Migration Solutions

Business benefits of using F5 for file-based data migration include:

• No client reconfiguration required.
  This can reduce migration times by as much as 90%, speeding upgrades, consolidations, and storage platform changes.
• No impact on user access.
  Powerful policies can automate the movement of entire file systems or just individual files between heterogeneous storage devices for both NFS and CIFS-oriented data.
• Reduced operational overhead.
  A result of streamlining migration with automated data movement.
• No need for stubs, pointers, or log files for data movement.
  These can reduce availability and add complexity to the backup and restore window.

When you use intelligent file virtualization to implement a capacity balancing plan, you virtualize your file storage environment. This eliminates the rigid mapping between clients and physical file location, and creates a logical representation of file content. In this virtualized environment, data is free to move across existing systems and excess capacity can be shared transparently without affecting clients. Storage provisioning becomes a simple, non-disruptive task.

F5 ARX^® intelligent file virtualization devices make the physical location of files irrelevant in terms of file access, so you can create a single, unified pool of storage within a multi-vendor, heterogeneous infrastructure. These devices provide a rich set of management policies that allow the movement of data in real-time, based on capacity demand. F5 solutions also eliminate "vendor lock-in," so you can choose the storage technology you need based on business and IT requirements.