Hitachi 9900 manual Infrastructure Planning Service for Ficon, SAN Services

Hitachi Data Systems

Infrastructure Planning Service for FICON™

The Hitachi Data Systems Infrastructure Planning Service for FICON ™ is an on-site, implementation planning and training start up service designed to accelerate the installation of a FICON solution. This service also helps protect current data center infrastructure investments by leveraging the current, physical environment and by projecting long-term growth requirements associated with the FICON migration. Hitachi Data Systems will help identify critical customer concerns, provide answers to technology questions, assist with budgetary estimates and make FICON infrastructure design recommendations. Once the service is complete, customers will not only have the technical information necessary to implement a FICON infrastructure, but will also have a complete understanding of the associated infrastructure costs related to the migration.

Storage Consolidation Planning and Design Service

The Storage Consolidation Planning and Design Service provides analysis of existing storage environments, performance characteristics, and capacity requirements. The analysis is used to create the implementation plan for migrations to a consolidated storage and storage area network (SAN) environment. The objective of this service is to ensure successful planning and design of the consolidated storage environment.

Storage Consolidation Implementation Service

The Storage Consolidation Implementation Service provides storage consolidation implementation services in environments using Hitachi Freedom Storage™ systems and software. The objective of this service is to ensure a successful storage consolidation of customer data according to set plans created in accordance with the Storage Consolidation Planning and Design Service.

Open Systems Data Migration Planning Service

The Open Systems Data Migration Service takes an inventory of a customer's existing storage environment and matches this to the customer’s capacity plan for Hitachi Freedom Storage™ systems. This analysis is then used to create the plan for the migration of the customer’s existing data to Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900™ V Series or Thunder 9500™ V Series systems. The objective of this service is the successful planning of the customer’s data migration to Hitachi Freedom Storage systems.

Open Systems Data Migration Implementation Service

The Open Systems Data Migration Implementation Service provides for the actual migration of existing customer data onto Hitachi Freedom Storage™ systems according to the course of action developed during this service’s prerequisite - the Open Systems Data Migration Planning Service. The objective of this service is to ensure a successful migration of customer data from the customer’s current systems to a Hitachi Freedom Storage environment.

SAN Services

Hitachi Data Systems offers an entire suite of infrastructure solutions that will assist clients in planning and implementing SANs to optimize the management and control of data across the enterprise. The modular services include:

•SAN Assessment Service

•SAN Design Service

•Basic SAN Implementation Service

•Advanced SAN Implementation Service

•SAN Health Check Service

The Global Solutions Services group has a highly experienced team of SAN specialists to aid enterprises in implementing SANs and maintaining them in optimal condition.

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