VPSA Hibernation: Another Powerful Tool to Control Your Enterprise Storage-as-a-Service, and Budget

We are delighted to help our customers achieve even more control of their enterprise storage as a service and manage costs with a brand new feature: VPSA Hibernation.

The new hibernation feature enables storage managers to flexibly disable and enable the Zadara Engine (the storage “brains” where protocols, encryption, and data protection features reside) during intervals when their data doesn’t require access, a particularly useful tool and powerful cost-saving feature for remote VPSAs used for replication.

Customers who use VPSA for time-specific tasks, such as storing the results of a daily processing job (i.e.,  using snapshots for disaster recovery mirroring to one of our global locations), can use this feature to hibernate their VPSA in intervals when the storage is not being accessed.

You may have already noticed a new button that appeared in the Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) Management Console titled ‘Hibernate.’

Enabling Hibernation 

Once you have created a VPSA (selecting drive types and quantity, establishing RAID groups, Storage Pools and Volumes) your VPSA will be listed in your VPSA Management Console, which you can accesses via the Zadara GUI or using REST APIs.

1.  To hibernate a VPSA, first select the VPSA to be hibernated and click ‘Hibernate’ in the VPSA Management console. A pop-up window will verify whether you would like to perform this action. 
2.  The VPSA Status will then indicate it is entering hibernation mode, a process that can take several minutes to complete.
3. From this point on, the hibernating VPSA is no longer available – Your VPSA will no longer be accessible, its IP address will display ‘N/A’ in the console, and the VPSA GUI will become unresponsive.