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In
this report, Ptak, Noel & Associates LLC describes a shift in enterprise storage thinking. As SAN environments become more complex and as more business applications and services interact with these environments, the more necessary, indeed, the more vital it becomes to have service-oriented, process-enabled management tools specifically for the storage environment. Ptak, Noel & Associates LLC further discuss how the growing adoption of virtualized server environments will only increase the need for such tools, and elaborates on Onaro’s role in facilitating this change.
Virtual server technology is here to stay. As initial development trials roll into production, its adoption is projected will continue to grow dramatically over the coming years. Nearly 80 percent of virtual machine (VM) production implementations are connected to central storage.
This interlocking of the server and storage worlds brings its own set of challenges and opportunities for data center teams. VM Insight from Onaro provides the crossdomain management capabilities required to maximize the rewards while minimizing the risks of VM implementations.
Best practices to be employed during migration and consolidation studies
VPs of Infrastructure and Operations are under constant pressure to more rapidly
provision infrastructure to support applications, hit cost reduction targets, and maintain
or improve application availability. To meet these goals, they are the directors of a
carefully orchestrated dance of network, server, storage and datacenter operation
teams.
Unfortunately, the state of storage management applications today has created the
“black hole” of storage. Beyond the immediate storage team, information about the
storage services delivered to an application is not easily available. SANscreen provides
a storage service view useful to integrating storage operations into the balance of the
infrastructure management team. The result is a decrease in application provision time,
improved availability and a decreased capital cost.
Endless capital requests for additional storage resources are the bane of existence for many storage directors and infrastructure VPs. The seemingly unquenchable demand for more space, combined with the nagging feeling that existing space is not being used, has triggered many an internal project aimed at examining storage utilization issues. All too often, these projects attempt to chase the metric of file level utilization. Yet unfortunately, this may not be the right approach to solving utilization problems. Especially for large, complex storage environments, attempting to track file utilization on a global basis may be doomed to failure. This white paper proposes a more effective approach to solving the utilization challenge in complex SANs.
In this report, Steve discusses ITIL and ITSM fundamentals and their importance. He breaks down the difference between ITIL/ITSM concepts and realities and describes the real-life IT issues you will face as you move towards an ITIL world. You will also understand why ITSM will fail unless key "foundation" issues are addressed such as backup/disaster recovery reporting, infrastructure change management systems, and even storage resource management (SRM).
Server virtualization is rapidly gaining market acceptance for server consolidation and provisioning, addressing the same needs fulfilled by fibre channel networks for the enterprise storage marketplace. The introduction by Emulex of LightPulse Virtual, implementing standards-based N-Port virtualization, will allow users to combine and leverage both environments (virtual servers and storage networks) into flexible, secure and reliable solutions.
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