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英国电信会议公司是一家专为企业提供包括电话、视频和电子会议在内的解决方案及服务供应商。几年前,英国电信会议公司碰到一个棘手问题:一遇到大量用户在周末马拉松式例会,系统就会关闭。其技术负责人说:“关闭系统主要是为了平衡资源,我们必须把载有会议数据资源的磁盘从一个磁盘阵列转移到另一个磁盘阵列上。”他解释说:“当时,我们采用的是DAS(直接附加存储)存储系统方式,它是一种把存储数据的磁盘阵列直接连在服务器上的传统方式。在数据处理过程中,涉及大量的性能调制、应用程序升级和数据移植等,也牵扯很多复杂而耗时的操作,因此,管理员需要花费很多业余时间转移磁盘和数据,而公司也要为此支付额外开支。最不幸的是,受这种存储架构的影响,我们被业务上的竞争对手远远地抛在后面。”后来,英国电信会议公司决定选择一个全新的存储战略,重点在于系统的灵活性和可用性。技术负责人回忆着:“我们最初准备考虑存储区域网络(SAN),但很快发现,虽然SAN可以解决大多数问题,却不能满足我们迅速调整存储资源、响应商业随机变化的需要。”英国电信会议公司希望有一种集成的存储管理方式,使他们的存储可以用于任何目的、任何时间。经专业人士的深入调查,“我们被建议引入SAN虚拟存储技术。”技术负责人坦言。“当时,对于虚拟存储这一概念,我们闻所未闻,搞不清楚它到底是个什么技术,更不明白我们为什么要用这个技术。”
BT Telecom is a provider of solutions and services for enterprises, including telephony, video and electronic conferencing. A few years ago, a teleconference company in the United Kingdom faced a thorny problem: The system was shut down whenever a large number of users met at a weekend marathon. “The system was shut down primarily to balance resources, and we had to move the disk containing the conferencing data resources from one disk array to another.” He explained: “At the time, we were using DAS (Direct Attached Storage) storage system, a traditional way of connecting disk arrays that store data directly to servers, involves a great deal of performance tuning, application upgrades, and data porting in data processing Many complex and time-consuming operations, administrators need to spend a lot of spare time to transfer disks and data, and companies have to pay extra expenses.Most unfortunately, by the storage architecture, we are the business Competitors are far behind. ”Later, BT Telecom decided to choose a new storage strategy with a focus on system flexibility and availability. “We were initially thinking about storage area networks (SANs), but soon discovered that while SANs solve most of the problems, they do not address the need to quickly adjust storage resources and respond to random changes in the business.” BT Meeting companies want an integrated approach to storage management that allows their storage to be used for any purpose, anytime. In-depth investigation by professionals, “We are proposed to introduce SAN virtual storage technology.” Technical director admitted. “At the time, we were unheard of for the concept of virtual storage, we were not sure what technology it was, and why we did not understand it.”