Protecting Data - Managing Data Growth - Simplifying Structure
Related Infrastructure Objective:
Server Consolidation
Related Infrastructure Objective:
Monitoring & Support

Subject Matter
NAS Filer Management

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File Server Consolidation

Overview

Filers are a class of storage appliance that provide block-level data access over fibre channel SAN fabric using FCP and over IP-based Ethernet using iSCSI. File access protocols, such as NFS, CIFS, HTTP and FTP, provide file-level access over an IP-based Ethernet network.

Protocol Virtualisation enables storage access via either FC, iSCSI or NFS thus enabling better utilisation of the storage infrastructure for all servers not just the critical application servers. This drives further consolidation thus enabling simplified storage management.
This file-level access means that organisations can consolidate existing NFS and CIFS file servers onto a single device either with its own storage or sharing storage from the SAN.

Consolidation also provides access to a number of advanced functionality features enabling, for example, multiple virtual fileservers to be established, consolidated backup and copy services, and dynamic adjustment of workloads.

NetApp is the market leader for Filers although there are a number of other vendors that offer similar functionality.

Key Deliverable

Consolidate the number of physical fileservers into one box serving multiple file system protocols

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