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<p style="color: #666;">A main impediment to storage virtualization is the lack of multiple storage vendor (heterogeneous) support within available virtualization technologies. This inhibits deployment across a data center. The only practical approach is either to implement a single vendor solution across the whole of the data center (practical only for small and some medium size data centers) or to implement virtualization in one or more  of the largest storage pools within a data center.
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Welcome to the Storage Wiki. Estimates vary but it’s well documented that spending on storage hardware, software and services exceeds $50B worldwide each year. Storage has always been and continues to be a critical component of the information infrastructure as data and information are the lifeblood of organizations.  
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The objective of this wiki is to provide information that fosters excellence in storage practices and leads various user communities to improve people’s lives, both in business and consumer settings. Ultimately, we hope to accelerate the adoption of and improve the application of storage technologies and services.  
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To accomplish this goal we’re focusing on four disciplines:
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# [[Storage strategy and planning]] to include the planning, justfication and roadmap for enterprise storage architecture
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# Best practices for [[storage management]], an ongoing discipline of adhering to clearly defined processes and procedures
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This wiki is designed to address these and other issues deemed relevant and noteworthy by this storage community. We encourage contributions that address:
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Please feel free to add new articles or edit existing ones as you see fit. Try to help professionals get more business value out of storage products and services and help consumers enrich their lives through the better application of technology.
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What to do if you're out of power or cooling

First, understand that storage is not the major culprit in the data center. IT equipment accounts for about 50% of energy consumption and storage about 20-30% of that piece of the pie. So overall, storage accounts for about 10-15% of the problem. Nonetheless, disk drives are a major culprit of storage power consumption and for those who are desperate – out of power or cooling - the best strategy is to deploy lower RPM drives and look to water cooling if possible.

For those who are not desperate, the best strategy is to wait for the vendors to commit to their green storage strategies while addressing the organizational issues discussed in Can IT be cool again?.

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Green Validation Report: 3PAR InServ Storage Arrays

Wikibon reviewed the power measurements made on 3PAR’s InServ E200, S400 and S800 storage arrays. These arrays are built from standard components, and enable the power of different configurations to be calculated. The measurements were made at the component level. The measurements were made across three different workloads:

  • Sequential read, with a 512K block size
  • Random read, with a 16K block size
  • Idle (no data being transferred)
The results of the three workloads were averaged to produce an overall figure of power consumption for each of the components of the 3PAR arrays. Wikibon believes that the benchmarks used and the power measurements made were done professionally and in good faith. In the opinion of Wikibon, this measurement represents a good and reasonable estimate of the power consumed in real world applications across a number of drives for applications typcally found in a data center.

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Planning a Green Storage Initiative

Fluctuating energy prices have heightened electricity and energy consumption as a major issue within the technology community. IT is a significant consumer of energy and IT energy costs have been rising disproportionately because of continued investment in denser IT equipment. Estimates from the EPA and others indicate that IT will account for 3% of energy consumption by 2012.

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Featured Case Study

Virtualization Energizes Cal State University

John Charles is the CIO of California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) and Rich Avila is Director, Server & Network Operations. In late 2007 they were both looking down the barrel of a gun. The total amount of power being used in the data center was 67KVA. The maximum power from the current plant was 75kVA. PG&E had informed them that no more power could be delivered. They would be out of power in less than six months. A new data center was planned, but would not be available for two years.

read more...

Storage Professional Alerts


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Featured How-To Note

Storage Virtualization Design and Deployment

A main impediment to storage virtualization is the lack of multiple storage vendor (heterogeneous) support within available virtualization technologies. This inhibits deployment across a data center. The only practical approach is either to implement a single vendor solution across the whole of the data center (practical only for small and some medium size data centers) or to implement virtualization in one or more of the largest storage pools within a data center.

read more...

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