IP-Connectivity to SAN 

The Challenge:

1. Enable affordable SAN storage solutions for customers looking to consolidate and centrally manage storage for their distributed server environments.
2. Providing multiple servers with capacity from a central storage pool over IP.
3. Reduce the complexity and cost of deploying and managing hundreds of servers.
4. Prevent application downtime due to out-of-space conditions.
5. Provide centrally managed Server-less and LAN-free backup to IP connected servers.
6. Respond faster to storage change requests.

The Solution:

Use StoreAge SVM storage management solutions combined with standard iSCSI router connectivity to dynamically provision storage, reclaim unused space, maximize application uptime by expanding capacity on a just-in-time basis, and centrally manage all storage in a uniform manner.

The Benefits:

Centralizing storage management benefits an organization in multiple areas, including:

Business Impact: 

• Flexible, adaptive infrastructure enables faster responses to changing business conditions
• Maximizes application availability for revenue-producing activities

Operational Impact: 

• Prevents server downtime due to out-of-space conditions
• Reduces the time needed to respond to storage change requests
• Enables existing storage resources to support additional servers, applications and users
• Increases the amount of storage each administrator can manage
• Reduces administrative errors by using one management console for all storage devices

Financial Impact: 

• Reduces storage costs:
  • Reclaims unused storage capacity
  • Eliminates “over allocation” of server capacity
  • Avoids adding more storage each time a new server is added
• Centralized Storage Management With StoreAge SVM 
• Aggregates all available capacity into centrally managed pools
• Allocates appropriately-sized Volumes to each server
• Unused capacity remains in the pool for future requirements
• Additional capacity is dynamically and granularly allocated to any server on a just-in-time basis
• Supports all major operating systems and storage devices