SAN (Storage Area Network) is an architecture of combining computer storage devices to servers which are remotely placed in such a way that they appear to be locally attached. Therefore optimizing its efficiency and the speed with which the disk space is utilized is significant, and the same task is well performed by SRM which stands for Storage Resource Management.
The functions of SRM do not get limited to the above mentioned but also involve data storage, data recovery, data backup, SAN performance analysis, forecasting of future needs, user authentication, protection of data from hackers and worms and so on. This provides a complete package to the data stored on SAN and a number of programs have been established to accomplish the task.
The SRM tools provide two levels of functionality which are day to day maintenance and monitoring and the second one is long term maintenance and planning. So lots of work for a single tool to do and hence it results into a very complex task due to the involvement of different factors. So any of the mistakes during development of this tool is quite an obvious fact and the data stored may be lost and you require another alternative of data recovery. Apart from that this management tool may be discovered as very costly product for few who can not afford this for the small servers and may fall in the need of data recovery options as certain of their most important data may get lost in its absence due to certain mishappening.
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