Storage Area Networks (SANs)
IT directors and administrators are faced with meeting their organizations rapidly changing and growing storage needs. These needs include reducing storage management costs, reducing backup/restore times, meeting the 24x7x365 data availability needs of today’s business environment. IT organizations are also faced with implementing affordable off-site disaster recovery solutions, creating easily scaling storage for new projects, providing a diverse range of users and applications access to their information, and reallocating or provisioning storage quickly with no downtime. Addressing these needs also comes in the face of IT organizations trying to control costs.
The SAN-distributed architecture enables non-disruptive migrations, upgrades, and capacity expansion. As data and applications increase, users can grow individual volumes, add entire storage nodes to an existing SAN cluster, or create a new cluster - all in an online manner.
SANs offer sophisticated features that simplify management of data :
- Snapshots
- Thin provisioning/auto grow
- Automated load balancing
- Remote copy capabilities between remote sites
- Synchronous replication between locations (Campus SANs)
Implementation
Our engineering network team builds data storage solutions that simplify management, reduce your costs, and optimize virtual environments. Easy to deploy and maintain storage area networks (SANs), ensure that your crucial business data remains available. Our innovative storage systems solutions provide unique double fault protection across the entire SAN, reducing your vulnerability without driving up costs the way traditional SANs can.
A&W Consulting Group can help you:
- Deploy and scale quickly and easily
- Simplify management
- Keep crucial business data available.
Helping your IT infrastructure work for you.™
Our technical staff has extensive experience in setting up new or upgrading existing LAN & WAN networks to meet your changing needs for capacity and performance. Our services include network monitoring, efficient network topology, cables & switching infrastructure, and fail-safe network connectivity.
Specialized Expertise
- MS Windows System Administration
- Network Installation and Upgrades
- Network Security
- Virtualization
- Storage Area Networks (SAN)
SANs and VMWare
SANs are the ideal storage solution for virtualized environments because of their own rich storage virtualization layer. Both the computer infrastructure and the SAN storage infrastructure are fully abstracted from the physical hardware.
Key Benefits
- Make capacity planning easier and less time consuming
- Provide multiple ways to avoid planned and unplanned downtime
- Improve storage and server utilization rates
- Streamline both storage and server infrastructure management
