A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONSOLIDATING A PLURALITY OF HETEROGENEOUS STORAGE SYSTEMS IN A DATA CENTER

摘要

A system and method for consolidating a plurality of heterogeneous storage systems in a data center comprising collecting data from a plurality of heterogeneous storage devices (101) using data collection tools (102), using Data PreparationTool (103) for extracting and translating the collected data, populating a Data Model stored in source storage configuration unit (104) suitable for analysis, analyzing and classifying the collected data by an analysis unit (105) based upon a plurality of attributes, comprising of a Consolidation Advisor that uses the analyzed data and candidate Target System Configurations, Preferences & Constraints (106) for generating optimum number, specification & configuration of the Consolidate Target State (109) infrastructure and mappings of logical units from as-is data center storage infrastructure to the target state, and iteratively validating the same in a Validation task (108) till the final desired consolidation and objectives are met.