Managing SAN attached storage

Doing capacity management properly means getting in front of potential capacity related problems before they happen and efficiently sizing resources.

SAN storage is one area of the IT infrastructure that is typically not as transparent as others are. This lack of visibility means that if problems are not discovered proactively the risk for degraded end user performance, outages, and under-utilized resources increases.

There are many examples where high impact problems could be evolving in your SAN infrastructure hidden from view. Identifying these problems early on, before end users are impacted, is what capacity management is all about.
Determining who should be responsible for capacity management of storage, that is SAN attached, is not always clear. Storage administrators are typically busy doing other high priority tasks and capacity analysts do not have sufficient knowledge of the SAN storage environment.

I’ll be discussing ways to assist the storage administrator in the complex task of managing SAN attached storage at my webinar ‘Capacity Management for SAN Attached Storage’ June 16 – register now and join me.

http://www.metron-athene.com/training/webinars/index.html

Dale Feiste

Principal Consultant