Chapter 16. Managing the Storage Infrastructure
Proliferation of applications, complexity of business processes, and requirements of 24?7 availability of information have put increasingly higher demands on IT infrastructure. Managing storage infrastructure is a key that enables organizations to address these challenges and ensures continuity of business.
Comprehensive storage infrastructure management requires the implementation of intelligent processes and tools. This ensures availability and performance of all storage infrastructure elements, greater data protection and security, centralized auditing, and meeting compliance requirements. It also ensures the consolidation and better utilization of resources, limiting the need for excessive investment in technology, and helps to efficiently leverage existing resources.
Managing the storage infrastructure comprises various activities including availability, capacity, performance, and security management. Each of these aspects are interrelated and must work together to maximize the return on investment. Virtualization technologies have dramatically changed the storage management scenario and have simplified the storage infrastructure management.
Monitoring is one of the most important aspects that forms the basis for managing a storage infrastructure. Monitoring provides status of various storage components and information to perform essential management activities.
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