Storage Area Networks (SAN): Smart Solutions is one of the leading providers of SAN technology. Our team of highly skilled SAN consultants have been involved in various aspects of implementing and supporting complex enterprise wide SAN implementations including back-up and restore.

We are enterprise level certified SAN partners for HP SAN technologies. For our Back Up and restore solution we implement the industry leading technology provided by the CommVault suite of products.

The HP StorageWorks SANs provide industry leading connectivity platforms to deploy, manage and operate today's demanding networked storage enterprise environments. It delivers the physical connectivity that, when combined with the other elements of the HP solution, brings into reality the well-established benefits of network storage: significantly reducing the total cost of ownerships (TCO) while maintaining high returns on investment (100% or greater). Most important however, are the ways SANs impact competitive advantage by improving the business agility and capacity to react to today's business challenges.

What is new with the HP solution: In this release of the HP StorageWorks SAN, HP continues driving simplicity in network storage by providing a completely new edition of the SAN Design Guide. The SDG provides customers with the benefit of HP engineering guidance, when building and designing scalable, highly available enterprise storage area networks.

More specifically, it provides:

Architecture guidance Massive configuration support Implementation best practices SAN rules for incorporating of new multi-protocol technologies

The New SDG edition features:

A new structure by volumes for friendlier access to information New SAN Design Tables for quick reference New IP volume with updated SAN rules for al new IP infrastructure products

Enhanced Fabric Interoperability:
Interoperability support now updated for latest C-Series firmware:

• C-M 2.0.1b with 06-02-00-22
• C-B 2.0.1b 4.2.2a/3.1.3a/2.6.2b

• Greater scalability limits
• New supported use cases

Tape Consolidation Features:

Centrally managed: Fully integrated with the HP OpenView Storage Area Manager framework to provide the ability to control/manage enterprise level heterogeneous fabric environments.
Upgradeable: Investment protection through backwards compatibility with older generation switches, and ability to upgrade device firmware non-disruptively.
Reduced complexity: Architectural guidance through SAN Design Guide and solution-focused blueprints.
Highly available: Ability to provide 99.999 or higher availability levels through director-class products and redundant-fabric SAN topology designs.
Secured: Authentication, authorization, access control and zoning provide added levels of network security.
Interoperable: Extensive HP testing to ensure seamless performance.
Open: Support for multiple operating systems and clustering environments; NEW standards-based fabric interoperability among B-series, M-series & C-series, for outstanding flexibility and investment protection. Please refer to SAN Design Guide for currently supported configurations.
Scalable: In distance, connectivity and performance, with support for more than 3,000 total ports in modular SANs to enable both today's and tomorrow's connectivity needs.
Multi-protocol: Ability to support multi-protocol infrastructures with FC, iSCSI, and FCIP.
Modular: Ability to implement modular SAN designs with increased scalability, stability and rate of utilization on storage assets through integrated subnet routing (B-series MP Router, and C-series Inter VSANs).


Benefits

The HP StorageWorks SANs provide the industry leading connectivity platforms to deploy, manage and operate today's networked storage environments. It significantly reduces the total cost of ownerships (TCO) while maintaining high returns on investment, and improving business agility.


SAN Back-Up

Our preferred Back-Up solution for our SAN implementations is the CommVault suite of products. Smart Solutions has partnered with CommVault for several years and has several successful enterprise level implementations.

The CommVault® QiNetix™ platform was designed to automate management of data by changing the approach from static to dynamic. It combines traditionally separate products for data movement with data management. Built on the proven CommVault Common Technology Engine (CTE) that moves, manages and catalogues data, the QiNetix platform integrates Galaxy backup and recovery, DataMigrator migration and archiving, Quick Recovery high data availability and QNet enterprise data and storage management products into an integrated, automated platform with a global catalogue and index, data movement and management. The interaction and integration of these components offer you many business and operational advantages, such as superior ROI, better use of storage resources, higher staff productivity, maximum data availability and reduced Total Cost of Ownership.
Customers can deploy individual products or seamlessly integrate new elements into an existing CommVault solution, at a fraction of the time, effort and money required by separate point products.

The CommVault Common Technology Engine (CTE) makes this possible - an underlying software foundation that gives CommVault software the unique ability to implement a meta-policy approach. The CTE translates Quality of Service directives into actionable policies at the software product/module level. With meta-policies, you can use QiNetix's application-centric approach to drive your storage devices and share intelligence about the storage infrastructure.