Tag: Storage Management

The Storage Management Project has completd the needs analysis, market research and cost analysis. The team has also established a strategic direction for our storage solution, and is now at the vendor negotiation stage. They expect to select a vendor by mid October and to deploy by the end of the calendar year.

The storage strategy seeks to accomplish a number of things:

1. Consolidate storage administration for all Enterprise storage to simplify and remove inconsistencies.
2. Use the same storage systems where possible and cost effective. This increases speed of implementation and lower the inital cost.
3. Have the fewest storage systems possible, reducing costs while simplifying management, upgrades and replacement cycles.
4. Avoid pre-purchasing storage space whenever possible. Purchasing space as needed provides the lowest hardware cost.

More information will be available as the storage management project progresses.

Project Summary

James Leckel and Greg Pepper are leading a project to create a strategic approach to centralized storage management. The project began earlier this year, and has been in the analysis and planning stages. The current centralized storage is costly and excessive for certain applications. Our SAN infrastructure connecting to this storage is also very costly on a per server basis. The storage management project seeks to create an effective strategy for storage, and to purchase an inexpensive, highly expandable storage unit that can be used as a lower tier of storage.

Status

Currently, the project team is evaluating storage vendors and products. The storage array will be an ISCSI solution with features such as storage virtualization and clustering.