• Does the application’s growth require... – Highly scalable capacity and performance? –High availability? –Better connectivity?
...or all of the above?
• The applications drive the selection of storage technologies and solutions
Storage Growth per Application
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0 12 Predicted Growth in 18 months
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Document the relationship between the application and the storage infrastructure:
In terms of both storage and CPU capacity, how much will the application grow over the next several months and years? Which applications need the highest availability? What applications need to share data? What security and access control procedures need to be implemented? How will backups affect the application’s access to its data?
It is important to carefully study each of the applications that will be affected by the implementation of the SAN.