Book description
We overspend on data center storage ... yet, we fall short of business requirements. It's not about the technologies. It's about the proper application of technologies to deliver storage services efficiently and affordably. It's about meeting business requirements dependent on data center storage. Spend less, deliver more. Data Center Storage: Cost-Effective Strategies, Implementation, and Management provides an industry insider's insight on how to properly scope, plan, evaluate, and implement storage technologies to maximize performance, capacity, reliability, and power savings. It provides business and use-case focused coverage of storage technology, including storage area networks (SAN), capacity-optimized drives, and solid-state drives. It offers key insights on financially responsible spending for data center storage. Delivered in accessible language, the book starts with a discussion of the business merits of replacing direct attached, compartmentalized storage with consolidated SAN-attached storage. The author advises on the use of service level applications (SLAs) as a tool to drive business unit collaboration with IT and prioritize those actions that impact productivity and profit from those that are less critical. This business guide to applied technologies disassembles big problems into digestible segments to help you understand, quantify, and fix any problems that arise as you work towards meeting your growing storage needs. The book builds on the consolidation and SLA driven approach to take advantage of the compelling benefits and potential savings of managed hosting and cloud storage.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- About the author
- What, Exactly, Will We Accomplish?
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Part I Building Blocks, Power, and Consolidation
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Chapter 1 The Disk Drive: The Fundamental Building Block of Enterprise Storage
- 1.1 Using a Metrics-Based Approach to Get Past the Complexity
- 1.2 Metrics for the Basic Building Block: Hard Disk Drives and Solid State Devices
- 1.3 About HDD Capacity and Service Levels
- 1.4 Financial Responsibility and the Tradeoffs between Capacity, Form Factor, and Spin Speed
- 1.5 Demystifying Hard Disk Drive Performance
- 1.6 Hard Disk Drive Quick Guided Tour
- Chapter 2 Power and AC
- Chapter 3 Storage Consolidation
- Chapter 4 Service Level Overview
- Chapter 5 Uptime, Reliability, and SLAs
- Chapter 6 Storage Tiering and SLAs
- Chapter 7 Service Level Agreements and IT Bill-Back
- Chapter 8 Demonstrating Delivery on SLA Service Levels
- Chapter 9 Planning for Growth and Storage Tiering
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Chapter 10 Wrap-Up: Projects Within Reach
- 10.1 Improvement 1. Improve Efficiencies with Static Tiering
- 10.2 Improvement 2. Improve Power and Air Conditioning
- 10.3 Improvement 3. Consolidate and Reduce Server-Attached Storage
- 10.4 Improvement 4. Better Backup—Replace Tape
- 10.5 Improvement 5. Establish Tiered Storage and Service Level Agreements
- 10.6 Improvement 6. Migrate Cool data onto to Tier 2, Release Tier 1 Resources for Critical Applications
- 10.7 Improvement 7. IT Bill-Back
- 10.8 Improvement 8. Track and Improve
- 10.8 Conclusion
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Chapter 1 The Disk Drive: The Fundamental Building Block of Enterprise Storage
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Part II Managing Aging Data and E-Mail Expenses
- Chapter 11 Migration and Retiring Aging Systems
- Chapter 12 Shared Folders and Content Management
- Chapter 13 Storage Strategies for E-Mail
- Chapter 14 Spending Wisely on Performance
- Chapter 15 Performance and Backup
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Chapter 16 The Right Tools for Reliability, Uptime, Disaster Recovery, and Archiving
- 16.1 Server Problem (Direct Attached Storage)
- 16.2 Server Problem (External SAN Storage)
- 16.3 Drive Failure
- 16.4 Accidental Data Deletion or Modification, or Virus
- 16.5 Storage Array Controller Failure
- 16.6 Cable Failure
- 16.7 SAN Switch Problem
- 16.8 Data Center Power Problem
- 16.9 Data Center Air Conditioning Problem
- 16.10 Data Center Interior Problem (Sprinklers)
- 16.11 Data Center Act of Nature
- 16.12 Spending Wisely on Reliability
- Chapter 17 Reliability and Server Failover
- Chapter 18 Reliability and Continuous Data Protection, Synchronous Replication
- Chapter 19 Reliability and Near-Continuous Data Protection, Asynchronous Replication
- Chapter 20 Reliability and Data Integrity (T10-DIF or T10-PI)
- Chapter 21 Virtualization Overview: Focus on the Business Benefits
- Chapter 22 Storage Virtualization
- Chapter 23 Virtualization, Storage Tiers, and Manual Data Movement
- Chapter 24 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
- Chapter 25 Converged NAS and SAN
- Chapter 26 Storage for Nontraditional IT Applications
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Chapter 27 Part II Wrap-Up: Projects Within Reach
- 27.1 Improvement 0. Every Proposal to Spend on Expanding Tier 1 Storage Hardware Must Include a Proposal to Migrate/Archive Data off Tier 1.
- 27.2 Improvement 1. Initiate Migration Projects to Retire Old Hardware and Archive Aging Data.
- 27.3 Improvement 2. Establish Performance Profiles for Key Storage Systems, and Establish a Performance SLA.
- 27.4 Improvement 3. Establish a Knowledge-Base to Debug/Resolve Storage Performance Issues Quickly
- 27.5 Improvement 4. Pilot SSDs.
- 27.6 Improvement 5. Use a Storage Array-Based Snapshot/Backup.
- 27.7 Improvement 6. Use Server Failover and Spend Wisely on Storage Reliability.
- 27.8 Improvement 7. Create E-Mail Quotas, PC Mail Folders, and PC Network Backup.
- 27.9 Improvement 8. Replace Shared Folders with a Content Management System.
- 27.10 Improvement 9. Using Manual Storage Tiers, Move Aging Data from Tier 1 to Tier 2.
- 27.11 Improvement 10. Pilot Automated Storage Tiers.
- 27.12 Improvement 11. Use a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.
- 27.13 Improvement 12. Establish IT Infrastructure Standardization.
- Part II Conclusions
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Part III Managed Hosting and Cloud
- Chapter 28 Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing
- Chapter 29 The Business Driving Managed Hosting: What It Means to You
- Chapter 30 Managed Hosting Vetting Process
- Chapter 31 Why Cloud is Relevant
- Chapter 32 Implementing Cloud Storage in Your Operation
- Chapter 33 Hybrid Cloud
- Chapter 34 Cloud Spectrum of Options
- Chapter 35 End Game and Hardware Roadmap to Leverage the Cloud
- Chapter 36 Strategy and Execution
- Chapter 37 Constructing a Roadmap
- Chapter 38 Risk Management
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Chapter 39 Part III Wrap-Up: Projects Within Reach
- 39.1 Improvement 1. Find the Right Managed Hosting Provider for Your Business
- 39.2 Improvement 2. Compare Managed Hosting Service Level Agreements and Managed Hosting Risk Management
- 39.3 Improvement 3. Find the Right Cloud Storage Provider
- 39.4 Improvement 4. Implement Cloud-Based E-mail
- 39.5 Improvement 5. Implement Cloud-Based Content Management and Collaboration
- 39.6 Improvement 6. Implement a Hybrid Cloud Project
- 39.7 Improvement 7. Create a Storage Strategy and Execution Plan that Includes a ZBB, Roadmap(s), and Supporting Phase Gate Project Management/Approval Process
- Part III Conclusion
- Appendix A Storage Protocol Basics
- Appendix B Project Management
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Appendix C People, Process, Technology
- C.1 Push Decisions into the Hands of Those Most Capable
- C.2 Develop a Culture of Peer Reviews
- C.3 Give Credit Where Credit is Due
- C.4 Create an Environment Where it’s Okay to Ask for Help
- C.5 Create Status Reports with a Project Management Slant
- C.6 Encourage Communication and Require Transparency
- C.7 Insist on Execution; Find and Resolve Dysfunctionality
- Appendix D Root Cause, Corrective Action Process
- Appendix E Iometer: Performance Testing in the Lab
- Glossary
- Index
Product information
- Title: Data Center Storage
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2016
- Publisher(s): Auerbach Publications
- ISBN: 9781466507814
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