Well-designed shared storage provides the basis for an SDDC and has the following benefits.
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Prevents unauthorized access to business data.
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Protects data from hardware and software failures.
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Protects data from malicious or accidental corruption.
Follow these guidelines when designing shared storage for your environment.
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Optimize the storage design to meet the diverse needs of applications, services, administrators, and users.
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Strategically align business applications and the storage infrastructure to reduce costs, boost performance, improve availability, provide security, and enhance functionality.
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Provide multiple tiers of storage to match application data access to application requirements.
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Design each tier of storage with different performance, capacity, and availability characteristics. Because not every application requires expensive, high-performance, highly available storage, designing different storage tiers reduces cost.
