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When creating a SAN, you need to strike the right balance among performance, cost, scalability, high availability and ease of management.
SANs are growing in two ways: They're getting bigger and companies are adding more of them. SANs are no longer limited to large organizations and mission-critical applications; they're popping up in small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and are increasingly used to serve all storage tiers. Fueling the growth of new SANs is rapid storage growth, the integration of geographically dispersed da...
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ta, compliance, more stringent application requirements and the need for a higher level of redundancy.
With some SANs holding hundreds of terabytes of corporate data, it's imperative for a SAN to be reliable, scalable and have few, if any, performance issues. Growing a SAN involves balancing performance and high-availability (HA) requirements with your cost objectives in the following areas:
- Overall SAN architecture
- Switches and directors
- Protocols
- Storage arrays
- Computing platforms
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