The challenge
A single-path SAN fabric and unencrypted offsite backup media are both single points of failure hiding in plain sight — invisible until a switch fails or a tape goes missing. The agency needed a storage environment engineered to survive a bad day at either layer, not just a well-run one on a good day.
What we built
A ground-up re-architecture of the storage and data-protection stack.
- Rebuilt the Fibre Channel fabric into a dual, meshed, fault-tolerant path across core and edge switches, eliminating single points of failure between hosts and arrays
- Engineered and administered SAN/NAS storage across EMC Symmetrix/CLARiiON, NetApp, and Hitachi USP-V platforms
- Made encryption mandatory for all offsite backup tape media
- Rewrote the Oracle RMAN backup scripts to correctly handle hot, cold, and archive-log backup modes
- Standardized enterprise backup and recovery on NetBackup across a large enterprise tape-library infrastructure
How it works
Hosts reach shared storage over the dual meshed fabric, so a failed path or switch never isolates a server from its data. Backups run on RMAN-driven schedules tuned to each database's actual operating mode, land on tape through NetBackup, and leave the building encrypted — closing the gap between "backed up" and "actually protected."
Results
- Sustained 99.99% storage availability across the environment
- Eliminated single points of failure in the fabric between hosts and arrays
- Closed a real data-exposure gap by making offsite tape encryption mandatory rather than optional
- A backup process correctly matched to each database's actual operating mode, rather than one schedule applied everywhere
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