Introduction to storage networking
This chapter introduces various storage networking options that you can choose to build your optimal storage environment, enabling the infrastructure simplification in the following ways:
•Consolidation
•Virtualization
•Automation
•Integration
16.1 Overview
Storage area networks (SANs) are extremely important for today’s data storage technologies. Previously, for client/server systems, data was stored directly on internal devices or directly attached to the server. When the number of servers and their storage ...
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