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Coverage
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SECTION 1
1. Challenges in SAN 2. SAN ROI(Return On Investment) 3. Review Questions
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Challenges in Backup
Hardware failure Media Failure Challenges in Backup Insufficient capacity & time Lack of skilled personnel
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Network problems
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Challenges in Restoring
Damaged tape which cannot be read. Data in tape is corrupt or incomplete
Challenges in Restoring
Lack of practice,planning and testing Software not working
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Applications from one or Logical protection more platforms in the of data must be enterprise need to be assured given access to the same data.
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Interoperability
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SECTION 2
1. Challenges in SAN 2. SAN ROI(Return On Investment) 3. Review Questions
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ROI of SAN
The major categories of SAN savings are: Equipment As SANs can use the storage space efficiently than the DAS, users can defer purchase of extra storage. Availability The risk of data loss is minimum with a SAN in place. People Since the SAN key operations are centralized, the administrators are also very efficient
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SAN Benefit
SANs enable centralized and consolidated management of their storage systems and tape libraries. SANs also significantly reduce the workload required to add additional storage.
Example
Both companies reported that their IT staffs now manage from 5-10 times more storage in a SAN environment than was managed in a direct-attached environment. FedEx and Intuit reduced their storage-management staffing expenses by over 60 percent. Intuit reduced its backup time from 26 hours to 3 hours and is now able to keep its revenuegenerating applications running while backup is performed.
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Increased Enterprise SANs eliminate application Information and downtime caused by backup Systems Availability and significantly reduce restore time
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SECTION 3
1. Challenges in SAN 2. SAN ROI(Return On Investment) 3. Review Questions
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Review questions
What are the challenges faced during backup and how can it be resolved? List down the storage management challenges faced by a SAN administrator. Explain the issues involved in storage consolidation. What is SAN ROI?
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References
A book from Veritas : Storage Area Network Essentials http://www.brocade.com- case study on ROI- KPMG consulting services http://www.snwonline.com/evaluate/calculating-roi IBM Enterprise Storage Server Handbook
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