SANpulse Helps Global Financial Conglomerate Undertake SAN Migration

SANpulse Technologies, Inc., provider of SAN migration and optimization solutions through its SANlogics Software Platform, had set a record for their Fortune 100 client: SANpulse successfully migrated the greatest number of hosts in the company’s history.

SANlogics ensured the successful migration of 64 servers to new EMC CLARiiON and Symmetrix DMX storage arrays within a single weekend, with 46 servers migrated in just one day. Before SANpulse was brought into the project, the number of servers migrated within one weekend was just about 12, on average. This represents an over 500% increase in the number of servers migrated compared to the client’s previous SAN migration with the same number of live resources (3-4 experts).

The rise in productivity is attributed to the automation capabilities of SANlogics software which delivers rapid and risk-free SAN migration without impacting business units and regular operations. The success of the project is further proof of the unique capabilities of SANlogics, which allows for tremendous scalability during the preparation and execution stages of the project. Automating discovery of the environment, from the overall initial discovery and analysis stage, to an ongoing post-migration discovery, allows access to an updated, complete view of the environment in minutes, rather than days and months. SANlogics is the only software on the market that automates creation of executable workfiles which allows for 100% risk-free migration leveraging data movers already present in the client’s environment.

"SAN migration executed with traditional manual methods take much longer than companies can tolerate these days. For years, the customer has been bound by the inefficiencies of those methods for migrating from older arrays to new hardware, being exposed to risks involved in the process, and ultimately, the costs that organizations absorb as a result of it," said Peter Mehta, SANpulse chief executive officer. "Simply put, by increasing a number of servers migrated during a single window our client can move to new storage arrays in weeks, rather than months or even years, which has a tremendous impact on their overall infrastructure TCO."

Dramatically shortening the overall SAN migration schedule also reduces the impact on daily operations of client’s engineering teams and business units. SANlogics enables the company to improve overall storage array utilization, ultimately reducing its TCO by transitioning from the older array much faster. The SANlogics automation process reduces human errors in configuration and execution tasks which otherwise would lead to an unacceptable downtime for the business.

"SANpulse can easily accommodate double the amount of servers we migrated this weekend, if the customer could reallocate more without impacting their business operations," said Mike Vaccaro, the SANpulse architect leading this project. "At that time, we were only limited by the schedule of the client’s internal processes, but are looking forward to beating this record next time."

As a unique side benefit to this speedy migration, utilizing SANlogics customers are also able to optimize their storage infrastructure. SANlogics can identify and act upon potential reclamation opportunities and provide on-demand, centralized management and reporting capabilities before, during and post-project.