Tier 1

Tier 2

Tier 3

Size

45 TB x 2 = 90 TB

100-500 TB x 2 = 200 TB - 1 PB

55 TB x 2 = 110 TB

Equipment

EMC Symmetrix

NAS

Left Hand Networks

Archiver

IBM, Dell, Other

High

Medium

Low/Medium

Low

Variable

High

Low
Test/development servers;
research data, applications,
WebCT, and web servers as
appropriate

Medium

Low

Mainframe, Exchange, high

performance databases, research
data, and WebCT as appropriate

Medium
File services (users, groups);
research data, database
applications, Web CT, and web
servers as appropriate;

Archival for Exchange, File Services,

SharePoint

Anything

Fiber channel

Fiber channel, CIFS, NFS, iSCSI

iSCSI

TCP/IP

N/A

Features

Replication

De-duplication, replication, thin

provisioning?

Replication, Storage
virtualization?

Deduplication, multiple copies of

data, data validation

Backups

Deduplication/backup appliance, VTL

Deduplication/backup appliance

LH Appliances,
Deduplication/backup appliance

Deduplication/backup appliance

Deduplication/backup appliance

Management Tools

Symmetrix Management Console,

Brocade Fabric Manager, Individual host
based management tools (i.e. Vmware
Virtual Center, Linux disk utilities,
Microsoft Management Console,
Mainframe resource pak)

Microsoft Management Console,

NAS management tools, Storage
virtualization management tools
(Hopefully the same as the NAS
management tools), Would like to
minimize individual host based
management tools

LH management tools, Vmware

Virtual Center, Individual host based
management tools (see Tier 1)

EMC SourceOne, Symantec

Enterprise Vault, etc

None (Could look at licensing

TreeSize)

Current

RFP (Closing 12/4/2009)

On order (11/6/2009)

Proposed

Current

Performance
Level of internal
hardware
redundancy

Applications

Interface options

Status

Tier 4

Direct Attached Storage

Variable