SAN

Beyond providing an iSCSI SAN that ESX servers and any other clients can leverage, the LeftHand Networks Virtual SAN Appliance creates a highly automated SAN that imposes very little management overhead. LeftHand Networks'Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA) opens the door for SMB and remote office sites to create and manage a secure, cost-effective, and fail-safe iSCSI SAN by simply leveraging existing direct attached storage (DAS) on ESX...

Storage area networks (SAN) deliver consolidated storage and advanced storage management features. This paper explains the benefits of three different server boot operations provided by one advanced SAN configuration. It counsels that you should weigh the benefits and drawbacks of each before committing your organization's storage system to one. Storage area networks (SAN) deliver consolidated storage and advanced storage management...

Storage area networks (SAN) deliver consolidated storage and advanced storage management features. Storage area networks (SAN) deliver consolidated storage and advanced storage management features. One advanced SAN configuration involves booting servers directly from the SAN, eliminating all locally attached storage, and improving server operations. Several server boot options are available: 1) traditional boot from internal...

while simultaneously addressing the root cause of SAN errors is challenging. This paper presents a high level summary of the most common SAN problems and explores new ways to dramatically improve application performance and availability.

Maintaining peak performance while simultaneously addressing the root cause of SAN errors is challenging. This paper presents a high level summary of the most common SAN problems and explores new ways to dramatically improve...

about the four sets of storage management tools for the SAN that he and his team uses, his future SAN management plans, and how he has reduced the number of SAN management tools.

In this case study, Wikibon interviews a UNIX infrastructure manager about the four sets of storage management tools for the SAN that he and his team uses. Wikibon asked him about the tools, what they did for him, what were the best and worst features, and what was the overlap between the tools. He then gave insight...

criterions to make the right decision when investing in a SAN storage system.

Changing business needs are creating challenging new data-storage demands and current storage systems are at full capacity. When considering a new storage area network (SAN), there are several criteria of utmost importance: scalability, performance, cost, efficiency, and consolidation.

Access this white paper to reveal three criterions to make the right decision when investing in a SAN storage system...

by frequent unplanned outages in a relatively simple SAN environment, a Texas health care facility turned to Virtual Instruments to provide the requisite insight and visibility for its new, much larger and complex virtualized SAN infrastructure. Continue reading to learn more.

Plagued by frequent unplanned outages in a relatively simple SAN environment, a Texas health care facility turned to Virtual Instruments to provide the requisite insight and visibility for its...

is a detailed technical guide to the IBM System Storage™ SAN Volume Controller (SVC), a virtualization appliance solution that maps virtualized volumes that are visible to hosts and applications to physical volumes on storage devices. Each server within the SAN has its own set of virtual storage addresses, which are mapped to physical addresses. If the physical addresses change, the server continues running using the same virtual addresses that it had before. This capability...

white paper to learn how one leading vendor's storage center SAN complements VMware environments and explore 7 ways this SAN optimizes VMware server virtualization.

As more organizations launch server virtualization projects in the hopes of achieving lower costs, better performance and improved flexibility, they're finding that existing storage technologies prohibit these benefits from being realized. In order for a server virt project to be successful, the underlying...

the Orlando Magic needed a storage area network (SAN) with I/O performance fast enough to play and stream both standard and high-definition (HD) video. Read this case study to see their solution.

As a playoff perennial, the Orlando Magic execute with efficiency on the court. Off the court, the team’s IT group adopted the same championship strategy to contain costs in the face of skyrocketing data demands. Game footage, practice reels and competitive tape had sent the team in...

SearchStorage.com E-Guide dives into warning signs of SAN management problems-to-come so you can catch them before they manifest in your virtual environment. Check it out to learn how your peers are responding to these pain points.

For all the benefits possible through virtualization projects, many server virtualization projects have been discontinued when organizations run into challenges. Most organizations don't ever virtualize more than 20 percent of their IT...

Check out this presentation transcript to learn how SAN tiering can improve both performance and efficiency and how Dell's PS Series' intelligent, virtualized storage technologies can help simplify tiering design, implementation and management.

Data growth isn't stopping - so what is your business doing to contain it?

Read this presentation transcript to learn in the context of 4 enterprise use cases - how SAN tiering has to ability to improve both performance and...

Check out this webcast to learn how SAN tiering can improve both performance and efficiency and how Dell's PS Series' intelligent, virtualized storage technologies can help simplify tiering design, implementation and management.

Data growth isn't stopping – so what is your business doing to contain it?

Watch this webcast to learn in the context of 4 enterprise use cases – how SAN tiering has to ability to improve both performance and efficiency. Find...

top strategies on how to increase storage, management, and SAN efficiency.

Today’s IT pros are increasing data centre efficiency through the flexibility and consolidation unleashed by virtualisation. However, storage hasn’t always come along for the ride of change. In order to maximise IT efficiency, storage resources must be consolidated to improve delivery and performance. This resource explores top strategies on how to increase storage, management, and SAN efficiency.

learn the results of ESG Lab testing of the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP) with a focus on the fundamentals of heterogeneous storage virtualization including centralized management, ease of use, thin provisioning, data mobility and capacity-efficient point-in-time snapshots. Enterprise Strategy Group undertook an in-depth global survey of current and planned x86 server virtualization customers to better understand the relationship between...

to best integrate VMware vSphere® 5.0 with HP P4000 LeftHand SAN Solutions.

This technical white paper provides best practices and configuration guidelines on how to best integrate VMware vSphere® 5.0 with HP P4000 LeftHand SAN Solutions. VMware vSphere® virtualization platform and software cloud infrastructure enable critical business applications to run with assurance and agility by virtualizing server resources. When implemented together with HP P4000 LeftHand SANs...

Centralized SAN data storage for VMware environments needs to meet the demands placed on it by the organization. These requirements typically include high capacity, high speed, high reliability and must be easy to deploy and manage. Read this white paper for more.

Centralized SAN data storage for VMware environments needs to meet the demands placed on it by the organization. These requirements typically include high capacity, high...

SSDs solution to eliminate I/O bottlenecks on the legacy SAN to improve the overall performance of the entire IT infrastructure.

With thousands of employees and over a dozen branches spanned across the globe, the Cesena, Italy fitness equipment manufacturer experienced business growth creating distinct challenges such as, overloaded SAN-based spinning disks were creating a performance bottleneck for the company’s enterprise relational data warehouse.

In this brief case...

become a proven option, but often requires a Fibre Channel SAN which can be expensive and complex.

Fortunately, with the emergence of iSCSI - or IP SAN - this is no longer the case. iSCSI arrays can help reduce complexity and TCO because they are usually simpler to deploy and often don't require highly-trained storage managers.

View this Webcast for an in-depth outline of iSCSI SAN technology and learn how it is truly changing the economics of storage consolidation. Get insights about...

benefits of the SVSP in those scenarios. The HP StorageWorks SAN virtualization Services Platform or SVSP is a network-based storage virtualization solution that enables enterprises to manage, pool, and share storage resources to improve efficiency, simplify operations, and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

This paper provides a general overview of virtualization technology and explains in more detail the value of storage virtualization in modern IT infrastructures. It...

In this expert e-guide, learn how you can increase business agility by implementing effective capacity planning and VM management. Plus, access an exclusive FAQ that clarifies how and why you should leverage virtualization storage consolidation and shared storage to reduce costs while supporting advanced virtualization features.

In this expert e-guide, learn how you can increase business agility by implementing effective capacity planning and VM management. Plus, access...

By using Ethernet as a backplane and abstracting the SAN with a server-side driver, you can eliminate multiple layers of SAN complexity such as multi-pathing, port bonding, and worldwide naming to provide low latency, massively parallel access to every disk on the network. Read now to learn more. 

successfully migrated to a Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN with Dell Fluid Data.

ZGT needed the flexibility to meet the demands of rapid patient data growth while lowering the cost of scaling its storage infrastructure.

By migrating to a Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN with Dell Fluid Data™ technology, ZGT will maximize storage efficiency, reduce manual administration costs, and leverage a modular, scalable architecture designed to grow along with the organisation.

to learn how traditional storage technologies like SAN and NAS are being turbo-charged to achieve higher performance, and how new approaches like object storage are taking over the web by achieving order-of-magnitude speed improvements with solutions like DDN’s Web Object Scaler (WOS).

DDN recently launched new storage capabilities, and with this presentation transcript you can be among the first to learn how this new technology can impact your bottom line and business...

Use of traditional SAN and NAS disk for secondary storage of content or data objects comes with a high price tag and tape-based systems bring their own access challenges. Dell created the DX Object Storage Platform as part of its IDM strategy to offer an affordable peer-scaling object storage architecture based on industry-standard hardware.

Use of traditional SAN and NAS disk for secondary storage of content or data objects comes with a...