Solutions > Datacenter Consolidation
Datacenter consolidation can enable companies to control rising costs and meet rigorous power, space and cooling restrictions. However, the complexity of datacenter consolidation raises multiple challenges that can jeopardize the successful implementation of these projects. The SANscreen® product family from Onaro® provides the applications necessary for project managers to meet these challenges and consolidate datacenters on time, on budget and without service interruption.
SANscreen assists with the three challenges of consolidation:
- Determining current configuration
- Planning and implementing change
- Validating pre and post performance
SANscreen solves these challenges by:
- Providing immediate, real-time visibility into the current storage environment.
- Delivering a built-in methodology for clearing configuration vulnerabilities prior to consolidating. Once the consolidation starts, SANscreen presents an actionable view of the storage services delivered to an application. This view is useful to the storage team, server team and facilities team alike. As a result, all of the key teams are on the same page – working off real data that is easily understood due to its application-centric orientation.
- Providing immediate, real-time validation that service levels have returned to their pre-migration levels. These service levels are expressed in terms of redundancy, RPO, performance and switch-hop latency.
Users of SANscreen for a datacenter consolidation project receive the following benefits:
- An incremental 75% reduction in outage risk. This is achieved by automating the pre- and post-consolidation verification process
- Documented cases of a 50% or more reduction in the storage portion of the project timeline. Much of the consolidation project involves pre- and post-verification. Since SANscreen automatically validates the services delivered, it eliminates a significant portion of the project time line.
