Can SAN management tool be a help
RAID Recovery - Can SAN management tool be a help
SAN management can be a great help if the users are aware of the specific situations to apply. Keith Lynch, who is the principle consultant of Intellinet, has clearly said that SAN management equipments that are specially vendor specific offer the most reliable granular control of own specific hardware. Further, he has affirmed that third party vendor to provide increased reporting or altering or if some tools are out of native uses, it should be, by any means, made available in case one requires. Lynch has also mentioned that SAN management tools can “proactively increase data avliability, improve network response time, increase security and move intelligence into the network.”
In favour of SAN management he has said that the kind of safety it provides are undoubtedly worth the money it charges. But the difficulties in choosing the right tools might occur if the SAN environment includes products from various vendors. However, the users may need to centrally configure and handle configuration data in case they are maintaining devices from different vendors.
According to Lynch, if users are looking for SAN management equipments, they should give a thought about core functionality, including mapping of storage devices, servers as well as switches, and controlling and alerting for discovered devices, logical portioning of the SAN. In addition, he has advised to select a product which is capable of managing multiple server platforms as well as OS including partitioning tools and managing other tools altogether if one is looking for management of typical SAN equipments such as storage devices, cables, and host bus adapter. This will help understanding SAN map.
He says that “standards like SMI-S, which would allow for the management of heterogeneous arrays from an independent platform, are great idea.” He has highlighted to various products like Computer Associates BrightStor SAN manager as an exception.
Michael Karp, an analyst for Enterprise Management Associates, has preferred using SAN products because of their benefits including increased overall performance and manageability.
