Successful server consolidation: it is all in the preparation
Successful server consolidation: it's all in the preparation
Storage
The type of storage used in your IT environment can help reduce the complexity of an
infrastructure. Data growth and storage needs can be costly and unpredictable. Many
server consolidation initiatives include a storage solution improving the SAN or NAS in
an IT environment. Storage in your current IT environment would be accounted for
during the analysis stage of any server consolidation initiative you choose to explore.
In many ways, SAN technology is the enabler in regards to server consolidation and a
streamlined IT infrastructure. To achieve an optimal IT environment, you must take
control of your storage availability, performance, and utilization.
HP storage solutions offer scalable, easy-to-manage hardware, software, and services
that help you optimize resources, reduce operating costs, simplify system management,
and allow for future growth. The benefits of a storage solution include, but are not
limited to:
• Reduced labor costs spent on management and maintenance requirements, as well
as downtime and administration;
• Accelerated application deployment and increased storage efficiency;
• Centralized management, allowing administrators to handle ten times what they can
today while proactively resolving potential problems;
• Cost-effective wide-area clustering and replication solutions;
• Achieving the highest level of data integrity with zero-downtime, and zero-recovery
time;
• Consolidated multiple direct-attached storage devices into a pool of networked
storage, enabling increased disk capacity utilization, added flexibility, and rapid
capacity provisioning;
• Achieving a greater rate of return on investment, both people and systems, and do
more with less.
For more information on storage consolidation, please visit the storage solutions page
on the HP website:
http://h30046.www3.hp.com/solutions/solutiondetail.php?topiccode=INFRASTORAGE
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