Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
Improved Support for SANs
Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012 support for storage-area networks (SANs) by providing enhanced mechanisms for connecting to SANs and switching between SAN nodes. In the past, a connection to a SAN was a static connection, meaning that a server was connected to a SAN just as if the server were physically connected to a direct-attached storage system. However, the concept of a SAN is that if a SAN fails, the server should reconnect to a SAN device that is now online. This could not be easily done with Windows 2003 or earlier. SCSI bus resets were required to disconnect a server from one SAN device to another.
With Windows Server 2012, a server can be associated with a SAN with a persistent reservation to access ...
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