Rayno34
Next Q: Biggest Challenges in evaluating management of growing storage workloads? #SDN #storagetech #storage
Coho Data
I think @eric_shanks def sees alot of customers environments to chime in on this as he is on the front lines.
Christopher Wells
To me, a first question to ask is: "What do I do when this box runs out of capacity?"... set-up another island of storage, or just power-on a new node and the increased capacity shows up instantly!
KoolioKev
Purchasing additional tools from the same storage vendor to get a view into the storage I have already purchased!
Christopher Wells
I think no (read: simple) management is better than more management as you continue forward in the storage lifecycle.
dana blouin
@vsamurai_com basically, less is more?
Coho Data
@KoolioKev some storage companies call that innovation..we call that minimum requirement :)
Christopher Wells
Yes, but offer extensibility in the form of APIs so that customers with lots and lots of nodes can manage like a single system.
Forbes Guthrie
@vsamurai_com Exactly. Don't saturate the user. "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler" - Albert Einstein
Ramana Jonnala
simplicity is key. managing 100 nodes shouldnt be 100 time the complexity of managing a single node
Christopher Wells
I think analytics into your workloads and how they can be optimized is something that becomes important at-scale, as well
Christopher Wells
Need intelligence that helps the consumer and/or manager of the storage resources to respond to bottlenecks automatically and before the problems are visible to end users
Eric Shanks
managing a single element would be important, as well as being able to see where performance issues lie in the IO blender.
dana blouin
@vsamurai_com or react before there is a bottleneck at all, utilize analytics with that intelligence.
Christopher Wells
@danablouin Yes & yes!
KoolioKev
@danablouin This type of intelligence frees me the admin to focus on other things in my environment like the customer need.
Geoff Wilmington
@KoolioKev The problem I've run into is that I have 5 tools that tell me 5 different things. I then have to piece all that info together to get a true understanding of my workloads
Geoff Wilmington
I think alot of the legacy vendors have tools that many departments use piece meal to get what they need. As a smaller org and smaller staff I need a singular tool to manage it rather than 5.I think that's beneficial no matter how many staff
Rayno
@vWilmo Also, off-topic, but maybe we need a #craftbeer dicussion some time. Seems big in #webscalestorage
Tate Cantrell
+1 on #craftbeer I have a 12-pack of Icelandic krækjuber ale in the overhead bin. Greetings from 10,000 meters BTW.