Storage Area Networks (SANs) play an increasingly critical role in application performance and the function of information throughout an enterprise. More-and-more, organizations are looking to service level agreements (SLAs) as a means to quantify and enforce SAN effectiveness. Currently, many enterprises think of SAN SLAs in terms of uptime alone. However, a SAN SLA must encompass performance and resource usage metrics as well. Otherwise, enterprises can find themselves with a SAN that's up but performing so poorly as to make applications unstable or unusable. Download this white paper to learn more about how SAN managers can use SLAs to track SAN performance and manage user expectation, improve configuration and resource management ensuring enterprises get the most out of their SAN environment, and spot usage trends and add capacity when and where needed.
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