SANs

Description:

SANs, or Storage Area Networks, are a way to access multiple data storage different from a NAS or Network Attached Storage. In basic terms, a SAN is a collection of hard drives that are connected together in a single box with multiple PCI cards that transfer data through a fiber optic cable to any computer with a fiber optic PCI card. What makes a SAN unique is that it is not OS dependent like NAS because it uses block level storage.

• For an in-depth article, see this
• Instructor led training, I usually refer to Flackbox
  • For a demo, see here
• For a not-so-in-depth article see this