How do I know if I'm ready for a SAN?
Do you consider 50 GB of data large enough to implement a SAN? Is any amount of data too small to implement a SAN?
Only implement a SAN when you find the cost savings of implementing a SAN outweigh the costs of staying with current practices.
A SAN will help with things like:
Disaster recovery
Storage utilization
Backup
Data management
Storage operations
Clustering
Server consolidation
Utility/GRID computing
Capacity on demand
Regulatory issues
Data archiving
If you have none of these issues, then perhaps a SAN is not required.
Chris
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The views and opinions expressed by Christopher L. Poelker are his alone and not necessarily shared by Hitachi Data Systems.
This was first published in May 2004
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