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Date: 31 January 2012
The Advantages of Centralized Management Regardless of your industry, organizations with multiple branch offices have one thing in common. An increasing dependency for online applications and computers to serve your customers and constituents. Centralized management is the key to consistency, efficiency and affordability.
Network and application administrators who are responsible for keeping applications and servers online and up to date with the latest software releases are under pressure and they have limited budgets and staff. How do you address all these challenges? You focus on centralized management.
In This Webinar, You Will
- Learn how to implement an affordable, high-availability branch office solution;
- Understand how the right solution reduces the demands on application and network administrators;
- Discover how to enable corporate IT to maintain control and manage branch offices from a single, centralized management hub.
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Footnotes: Questions Raised
Q: Can update of multiple sites be deployed hands off? A: That is depends on the SVA solution, SvSAN instances can be installed and updated from your central office.
Q: What Raid Type is best suited to SVA’s? A: Many vendors specify certain RAID types that they prefer or for certain environments. Typically the debate is between RAID 5 and RAID 10, RAID 5 is known to provide better read performance and Raid 10 provides better write performance. Which is best very much depends on the applications you are running and the performance of your cards, this is something you want to ideally test in house first.
Q: How Long does sync between Mirrors Take? A: There is no definitive answer, this very much depends on the performance of your hardware, the connection between the hosts and how much data is being mirrored.
Q: What support does the product have for SRM (Site Recovery Manager) in terms of SRA (Storage Replication Adapter) module A: At the moment SvSAN is not supported with SRM but is on the roadmap for future development
Q: Can SVA’s support linked vCenters A: You will need to check with each provider but I can say that SvSAN does, to do this you would require SvSAN management plugin at each site.
Q: What is the Performance difference from Physical Storage A: There are many different types of SAN solutions which can provide very high performance and even lower performance so it is difficult to give a direct answer. SvSAN has shown to provide higher performance in some scenario's. As an example with our customer Credit Plus(Case Study: http://www.stormagic.com/case_studies.php)
For optimum performance Raw Disk Mapping is ideal as it provides approximately 25% performance increase when compared to VMDKS.
