Storage Tiers

Storage Tier
0 - Special Functionality
1 - Enterprise (15,000 rpm)
2 - Modular (10,000 rpm)
3 - General Purpose (7,200 rpm SATA)
Connectivity Tier :
A - Fibre Attached
B - iSCSI Attached
C - NAS

Regular Charge Includes:
– Storage Frames
– Disk capacity,
– Switch fabric and related fibre cabling.
– Storage capacity for Unix, Linux and Windows server systems
– RAID 5 based storage.
– Data Centre costs
– Third party premium maintenance
– Depreciation of storage infrastructure

Regular Charge DOES NOT Include:
– Server based licenses for SAN attachment (mutli-pathing software or volume manager software)
– Host Bus Adaptors for connection of fibre
– Fibre cabling from the customer server up to the storage fabric switch
– Replication software (available as Tier 0)
– Bandwidth and protocol convertors for cross site replication
– Effort required to implement project requirements
– Effort to administer and manage the SAN solution