Jason Powell beat me to it.  Check out his post here. And the official Dell/Equallogic press release here.  I’m looking forward to seeing what this can do.  We already use application aware SQL snapshots on our SAN, and it’s great to be able to recover a single database from a volume snapshot.

I’m curious what level of granularity this new tool will allow.  I question how usefully it would be to restore an entire datastore (which I think is what this tool does), since I already have methods to do that.  I guess even restoring at the datastore level, it would be a plus to have it integrated with the SAN.