Storage Admin Count

[Gary75]

How many dedicated administrators should be allocated to an environment with the following:
2) XP24000's with 2) EVA8400's as external storage.
1 or 2) EVA8000's stand-alone
6-8) c-class blade switches (brocade)
9) 4gb san switches (brocade)
4) 2gb san switches (brocade)

[Phil West · Accepted solution]

Sweet environment! It depends on how often changes need to get made once the entire environment is up and running... But my guess is that you will need one person full time and someone that knows more or less what is going on in the event that he is sick, on leave, training etc...

[Gary75]

Throw managing all the enterprise backup systems into the mix - backup, vaulting, encryption into the mix...

[Phil West]

Probably 2 that are reasonably cross trained, or one senior & one junior...