Designing Disaster Recovery … on a budget
This article is still under construction.
There are several options for disaster recovery and high availability. There's host based solutions, array based solutions, and virtualization solutions. Which to pick? We're going through a pretty crazy test of products, but we have the same problem as everyone else, we have tons of different storage vendors. So do you pick host based replication solutions, probably not. Do you pick array based solutions, sure, those will work. What about adding another layer of complexity to the solution and add an in-band virtualization solution? Or implement something like EMC RecoverPoint and only worry about replication with one thing, and keep array based solutions for specific tasks? So many things to choose from.
Storage resource management (SRM) – Products
storage resource management products are hard to find. i've compiled a list (in no specific order) of products i've found. If you have any others to add please do!! it's actually been quite difficult to uncover some of the more advanced automation and storage management products.
Storage resource management (SRM):
Storage resource management (SRM) is the process of optimizing the efficiency and speed with which the available drive space is utilized in a storage area network (SAN). In recent years, numerous programs have become available that can help SAN administrators accomplish this task. This diverts the burden of performing the chore manually, which can be considerable, away from administrators.
Functions of an SRM program include data storage, data collection, data backup, data recovery, SAN performance analysis, storage virtualization, storage provisioning, forecasting of future needs, maintenance of activity logs, user authentication, protection from hackers and worms, and management of network expansion. An SRM solution may be offered as a stand-alone product, or as part of an integrated program suite.
Datacenter Storage
How does your datacenter storage look? We created a "storage asile". There are 20 racks that we thought would be plenty during the datacenter build (approx 2 months ago). Now, there's only a few racks left as we're installing another new NetApp 6080. Here's some pics:
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