Cisco Intersight: A Handbook for Intelligent Cloud Operations

Chapter 6

Storage Operations

Introduction

Storage may not be the first thought that comes to mind when you hear the term cloud operations, but storage is a critical component of any infrastructure. Application user experience can be drastically influenced by the availability and performance of the storage systems needed to persist and retrieve data. A common challenge that storage administrators face is how to manage a very heterogeneous set of infrastructures. Storage is often provisioned on a need or project basis and can therefore take on many different forms—such as hyperconverged, traditional block and file, or object based—and can be supplied from many different vendors.

Intersight helps minimize this operational burden by wrapping a ...