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Statement of Services and SupportPAGE 12QLOGIC SAN SOLUTIONS GUIDEVERSION 2.0, AUGUST 2007
Backup and Restore SolutionsData Protection with SAN-based Backup and RestoreAs your company's data becomes a crucial business asset, ensuring its stability and protection with SANspowered by QLogic is more critical than ever. Many organizations have faced the challenge of backing upmore and more data while backup windows continue to be reduced. Most IT departments have come to theconclusion that a cost-effective and efficient backup strategy must be put into place to protect vitalbusiness data. Not having such a strategy could result in complete loss of data and business.Traditionally, most backup and restore solutions revolved around a backup strategy that included adedicated backup server that used a LAN to transfer data from the various servers to the tape backupservers. This approach has many drawbacks, including poor resource utilization, increased traffic on yourcompany's Ethernet LAN, and, in most cases, straining the existing IT infrastructure by not keeping up withthe amount of data that is being generated.To solve this problem, SANs powered by QLogic can be implemented to dramatically increase backupperformance as well as increased bandwidth, virtually eliminating the need for the Ethernet LAN. SANscan speed up and simplify the data backup process. Two solution models that can be implemented usingQLogic SANbox switches and SANblade host bus adapters are as follows:• SAN-based LAN-free backup and restore• SAN-based Server-free backup and restoreThe following figure depicts a SAN powered by QLogic backup and restore configuration.QLOGIC SAN SOLUTIONS GUIDE PAGE 13VERSION 2.0, AUGUST 2007
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Page 7 and 8: IntroductionThe QLogic SAN Solution
Page 9 and 10: IntroductionThe QLogic Product Line
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Page 19 and 20: High-Availability SolutionsClusteri
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Page 26 and 27: IndexPAGE 26QLOGIC SAN SOLUTIONS GU
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