- System administration
- Change control and configuration management
- Configuration tuning (for performance, availability, ...)
- Measuring and monitoring - what should be measured and monitored?
- Security, patching the underlying storage server OS, and its effect
on operations
- Updates - frequent and incremental vs seldom and substantial
- Testing (esp. after updates) for changes in behavior or performance
- Monitoring
- Uptime management
- Operation impact of updates
- Task automation
- Managing multiple levels of sensitive data
- Supporting highly-collaborative, distributed, user communities while
preserving security
- Downtime management (short and frequent, vs. infrequent but long and
complicated)
- Effect on system availability (scheduled vs. unscheduled)