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Peer Incite: Grant, a Sr. Storage Admin at a large bank discusses how heterogeneous storage virtualization can help reduce the budget for 2009.
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WikitipDemartek Evaluation of QLogic-HP SSCM SoftwareMuch confusion and discussion has accrued around the ease-of-installation and ease-of-use of Fibre Channel storage. Some technology professionals have decided it is too complicated and believe that deploying iSCSI storage over Ethernet would be simpler. Although Ethernet may be ubiquitous, most network administrators have little knowledge or experience managing storage. Basic storage management knowledge is needed to successfully manage storage, regardless of the interface to the storage. QLogic Corporation commissioned Demartek to evaluate the ease-of-installation and ease-of-use of HP Simple SAN Connection Manager (SSCM) software that QLogic developed for HP as part of the HP StorageWorks H-series Fibre Channel switch portfolio. SSCM provides a simple, wizard-based procedure to configure and manage Fibre Channel SAN agent components, including host bus adapters, Fibre Channel switches, and storage arrays. SSCM allows a complete Fibre Channel SAN to be deployed in minutes. In this report we compare deploying a Fibre Channel SAN with the SSCM software to deploying an iSCSI SAN in the traditional method. |
Featured Case Study
Virtualization Energizes Cal State UniversityJohn 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. |
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Storage Virtualization Design and DeploymentA 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. | |||
