By contrast, Figure 4.13 exhibits a storage-centric approach, where serv-
ers have minimal local storage resources and share one or more common
storage cabinets to access mainstream data required by the application.
Some deployments can even go as far as using diskless servers that can
boot directly from the SAN infrastructure. We are in this case building a
redundant array of independent servers (RAIS), a proposal that is quite
Figure 4.12
SAN in a Microsoft
Exchange Network
Figure 4.13
Server Centric
Approach
4.5 ...
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