Storage Mgmt Planning & Provisioning Guide just one reason to choose EqualLogic
What else are you buying with a fibre channel storage solution? More complexity and more risk. Take a look at the steps EMC says IT managers need to take to minimize SLA violations and SAN downtime...
Are you ready for EqualLogic?
- 5 minutes of planned downtime each year.
- Add disks, volumes, and arrays to your SAN with NO downtime.
- Connect, configure, and store files in just 30 minutes.
"For most enterprises today, storage area networks (SANs) are getting larger and more complex with the addition of new storage, servers, and applications from multiple vendors. Against this backdrop of growing complexit, one thing remains constant and this is changes in the SAN. Without the most accurate and timely information, making the slightest changes within a SAN can be potentially disastrous from an availability, interoperability, and SLA perspective.
"In addition, lack of information on the current state of SAN best practice compliance can mean potential risk of downtime. The driver-firmware combination for a host bus adapter (HBA) may be unsupported. Zone configurations may contain single points of failure or may not comply with zoning policies. A firware update to a group of HBAs could prove incompatible with the connecting SAN switches or you could easily make the wrong port assignments on a new SAN design. Such mistakes can be costly --- often impacting the performance and availability of mission-critical applications."
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EMC
Storage Management Planning & Provisioning Guide
Tech Library (full text)
September 2006
