General practices for storage
This chapter describes some general practices and recommendations for target storage devices. From disk to host, there are many factors to consider because every piece of the storage area network (SAN) has a part to play.
This chapter describes the following topics, from disk to host:
•General storage systems guidelines
•Disks
•MDisks and volumes
•Back-end
•Front end and fabric
•Host
4.1 Configuring and servicing external storage systems
In this section, we provide some general guidelines for external storage systems ...
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