Change and configuration management & SAN

All of a sudden, IT organizations are realising the importance of change and configuration management and their take towards it. Change and configuration management has become the buzz word in the IT service management. CIOs and top level managers are carving out strategies for managing servers, networks etc etc.

So, what is it like understanding change management for Storage Area Network (SAN) for
managers and administrators?

The complexity involved in managing SAN has increased tremendously and is one of the concerns of CIOs and to-level managers because of the cost involved in it. Existing manners such as manual methods and cumbersome spreadsheets are proving to be time consuming and prone to mistakes and thus precluding IT organizations from attaining high SAN stability and application availability -- a priority for CIOs.

The reason for higher complexity is lot of devices to be managed and hence lot of change and configuration to be managed. SAN managers and administrators are involved in managing following:

1. Discovery
2. Redundancy
3. Performance
4. Security
5. Disaster recovery
6. Clustering
7. Backup

In large organizations, thousands of changes relating to adding of servers, alerting zone, consolidation, migration etc, are made each year. Given the complexities of SANs, a change management application can be a useful tool for understanding, managing and fixing logical and physical relationships in an end-to-end SAN.

So, if you are one looking out for managing change and configuration in SAN, it is right time to go and evaluate the change and configuration management tools available in the market today. Visit the following link to evaluate the software vendors.

Change management vendors

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Best practices in SAN change management