Assessment and Design The storage networking project cycle
The Storage Networking Project Cycle
Engage Maintain Design Deploy Test
Much like business applications solutions, SANs follow a life cycle
Assessment
The vendor that does the best job here is positioned to better understand the customer priorities. Their homework can create multiple design alternatives for the customer consideration. This provides the customer with more options and alternatives.
Design
The design is a lot more than just components. It includes topology choices, growth options for the future, a wide variety of management applications, and tools that will allow the business to adapt to changes in the business.
Test
Interoperability testing is not done until the customer’s applications have been tested and stressed to simulate production environments.