Business Requirements
Provide additional storage on their existing SC4020s across their 3 sites in Cork, to increase the Oracle Database and VMware datastore available capacity.
The Delivery
- Perform pre sales systems Health check to validate that the array can take the additional capacity and performance without exceeding the recommended performance limits.
- Offer a set of storage upgrade options.
- Provide the customer a list of pre-requisites prior to Disk install
- Perform Disk Installation across their 3 sites
- Post install validation, Raid rebalance and enable replication
- Ensure a fully managed end to end Project via internal Project management practice.
What Did We Do?
Ergp PM and Technical lead worked closely with the customer’s team to execute the Disk install in 3 phases, each site:
PRE- INSTALL
- Perform full system health check to ensure correct version of SCOS and that the systems were in a healthy state prior to upgrade.
- Confirm that recent backups had been completed and that an offline phone home has been initiated and collected.
DISK INSTALL
- Add additional disks in each SCv4020 & SC220.
- Confirm new disks are detected and present.
- Perform RAID rebalances.
- Enable replication & disable maintenance mode.
- Verify all process are complete and all arrays are error free.
POST INSTALL
- Validate all storage is now available to hosts and that volumes can be expanded.
Core Technologies
Compellent Storage
Client Benefits
- Overall improved storage performance as workload was distributed across a greater number of SSDs.
- Capacity uplift provided the additional space for application growth required for the remaining period of support for the storage system covering the two main workloads.
If you would like to know more about the above project or any other Ergo projects please feel free to reach out to our team on info@ergogroup.us.com
