Storage Management Tools in a Virtualized Server Environment

ID Number: G00171048

28 October 2009

Valdis Filks Robert E. Passmore

Planning for storage requirements is a critical part of any server virtualization project. Many tools for the purpose exist, but their use is often an afterthought or an emergency purchase when customers discover that server virtualization increases storage costs and management complexity.

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Table of Contents

Analysis

1.0

Introduction

2.0

What Storage Structures Need to Be Managed?

3.0

How to Maintain, Configure and Manage These Components

3.1		OSs and Hypervisors
3.2		Protocols
3.3		Hardware or Virtualization Software
3.4		Storage Arrays, Appliances and Physical Storage

4.0

How Storage Management and Planning Reduces Costs

5.0

Pure Storage Management Tools

6.0

Pure Performance and Problem Management Tools

7.0

Consolidation Planning Tools for Storage Within Server Virtualization Projects

8.0

Summary

Recommended Reading

List of Tables

	Table 1.	What Needs to Be Managed at Each Layer

List of Figures

	Figure 1.	Storage Components That Need to Be Managed

Storage Management
Server Virtualization

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