Additional General Purpose Storage
CiCS can provide additional storage for departments wanting more than the standard offering of a departmental shared area.
Additional Storage can be made available in a variety of ways. The storage can be attached to a Novell Netware server which can be accessed via a mapped drive, just like your existing U: and M: drives, or can be attached to a (Virtual) Windows or Linux server.
For more information on the Virtual Machine hosting service that CiCS also provides; please see this link to the Virtual Machine Hosting Service.
CiCS provides 4 basic storage types, offering different levels of protection in the event of Disaster Recovery (DR).
| Storage Type | A** | A* | A | B | C | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost (£) | 1140 | 900 | 620 | 360 | 300 | 260 |
| Mirrored |
Yes (to FCAL) |
Yes (to SATA) |
Yes (to SATA) |
No | No | No |
| Recovery Time in event of DR | Highest Priority | Highest Priority | Highest Priority | After Type A | After Type B | After Type C |
| DR - Daily Snapshots | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| DR - Backup to tape once per week for 4 weeks | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| DR - Backup to tape once per month held for one year | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Typical use | High Performance Systems | High Performance Systems | Business critical | Business low priority | Archive storage area | Temporary storage area |
Above costs are per TB per Annum. Storage is provisioned in ¼ TB increments.
It is essential that an early dialogue takes place between the CiCS Storage Administrators and any department considering additional storage. Please contact the CiCS Helpdesk x21111 who will pass the details to the Storage Administrators.
For more information please read the additional storage policy document