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STORAGE AREA NETWORKS
References for this Section:
Barker, Richard, and Paul Massiglia, Storage Area Network Essentials, 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-03445-2
Freedman, Alan Computer Desktop Encyclopedia (Version 16.1 on CD-ROM), 2000
The Computer Language Company
What is A Storage Area Network?
(c) 1981-2002 The Computer Language Company Inc.
All rights reserved. Ver. 15.1, 1st Quarter 2002
This isn't a SAN.
It's a LAN.
What Makes a SAN Different?
- universal storage connectivity
- SAN takes over file system
- NAS is still a file server
Why Use one?
- backup
- high throughput
- disaster recovery
- clusters
- data replication
CPSC 461:
Copyright
(C) 2003
Katrin Becker
Last Modified
June 23, 2003
09:57 PM