Building a Modern Data Center: Principles and Strategies of Design by Scott D. Lowe & David M. Davis & James Green

Author:Scott D. Lowe & David M. Davis & James Green [Lowe, Scott D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Data Center, Datacenter, Hyperconvergence, Hyperconverged, HCI, Software-Defined, Software Defined, SDS, Storage, Information Technology, Virtualization, Cloud
Publisher: ActualTech Media
Published: 2016-01-13T23:00:00+00:00

What Can Be Done with What’s Available?

SDS capabilities are commonly overlooked or not utilized due to a lack of understanding. Therefore, one of the steps an organization should take when implementing an SDS strategy is to look at what can be done with what is already available. For example, the organization’s hypervisor of choice might already have the ability to place virtual machines on certain storage based on policy.

This is a facet of an overall SDS strategy that can be implemented immediately with technology that is already owned by the business. Showing this value immediately and without a capital purchase can help increase support for later phases of the transformation. However, you should consider whether using SDS mechanisms that are vendor-specific could be a decision that paints oneself into a corner. Deploying SDS solutions that are tied to the hypervisor could increase the risk of lock-in.

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