Are you considering upgrading your closet network (SAN) system and wondering how to handle your old equipment? There are many uses of old SAN hardware, or useful methods for getting it both your hands.
1. Trade it in - What trade in credit is often offered towards a purchase order from a new SAN or storage array? A previously owned data storage specialist can typically provde the highest value.
2. Upgrade the drives - As an alternative for purchasing new storage equipment, extend all the memories of anything you have. Trade as part of your slow drives for fast drives or convert your fiber channel array to a SATA archive platform.
3. Archive - Maybe you have data that does not need that should be accessed or modified, but will be playing valuable space on expensive primary storage. Smart decision older hardware for being an archive target due to this archive data.
4. Testing - Dedicate and isolate your old equipment as a general "sandbox" for testing and development and lower performance bottlenecks that be caused by overcrowded or over-provisioned storage systems.
5. Install on a remote location - Deploy the device with only a remote office or site location and employ the proportions to grant space for SQL, fileshares or VMWare.
6. Disaster Recovery - Re-purpose your equipment at disaster recovery, and relax knowing your details remains safe and secure. There are multiple techniques to replicate between similar and dissimilar arrays.
7. Install SATA Drives - Optimize your old SAN equipment for archive purposes by replacing the Fiber Channel Drives with SATA.
8. Disk Based Backup - Reduce your reliance on tape and employ your old equipment for a backup to disk target for Oracle, SQL, VMWare, Sharepoint or Exchange.
9. Pass it on for money - Your old system may hold value. Make contact with a used storage vendor that specializes just kept in storage to discover with an outdoor oven get.
