SAN Design Considerations !!!

Design Considerations When a new SAN design is under development, or an existing SAN is to be modified, a number of design considerations must be evaluated. Such considerations include: ■Geographic Layout ■Data Locality ■Connectivity ■Storage Capacity ■Heterogeneous Platforms and Operating Systems ■Scalability and Migration ■Backup and Restore ■Data Availability ■Disaster Tolerance ■Switch and Hop Counts ■Oversubscription ■Performance and Application Workloads ■Manageability ■Fabric Zoning ■Selective Storage Presentation ■SAN Security