Storage - SAN's

Using the extensive knowledge base of our professional team; we also provide a range of SAN services to help you, including:

• SAN implementation - GladiatorIT can offer you a new SAN environment to meet your storage requirements, whether or not you have an existing SAN.
• DAS to SAN migration - Perhaps you'd like a faster SAN, but you're unable to undertake the major exercise of migrating from your DAS solution to SAN?
• SAN upgrades - Because SANs have been around for a long time, many 1Gb SANs exist. We understand the processes and pitfalls when upgrading to 2Gb.
• SAN health-check - Are you certain that your SAN is working to the best it can? We can help you maximise the benefits of SAN and unveil any problems.
• SAN troubleshooting - SAN's can be complex infrastructures, mixing different server types and operating systems, different arrays and vendors products and then asking it to work together can be a challenge. GladiatorIT provide a leading troubleshooting service on a wide range of equipment and have expertise in most array systems and infrastructure, as well as leading operating systems.
• Array types include - HP MSA, EVA, XP, HDS range (and thus LM> SUN) & EMC Symmettix.
• SAN based switches - HP, Brocade and Cisco.
• Operating systems such as - VMWare, Windows, Netware, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX and Linux both 32 and 64 bit where applicable.
• Specialised database tuning on SAN - We've also developed years of experience with implementing and supporting database systems, running in SAN environments. Optimise for performance and look at "Instant backup and recovery" solutions using SAN.