Using Sans and NAS: Help for Storage

Using Sans and NAS: Help for Storage Administrators by W. Curtis Preston

Using Sans and NAS: Help for Storage Administrators W. Curtis Preston ebook
Page: 226
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780596001537
Format: pdf

Customers can purchase the SAN together with the NAS to support file-level disk capacity, or delay the NAS system purchase until file-level management is required. Help preserve valuable storage capacity and take pressure off network infrastructure. Using Sans and NAS: Help for Storage Administrators W. Curtis Preston Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated. Using SANs, for instance, is a way to share multiple devices (tape drives and disk drives) for storage, while NAS is a means for centrally storing files so they can be shared. The combo will be available Warehousing. Last week I had the opportunity to meet with a life sciences storage guru in San Francisco. And while it may take some time, there's no doubt the use of local storage to support business-critical workloads is beginning to gain broad appeal. Considering the budget resources data storage takes in most companies, it's not surprising that IT executives are wondering if the cloud can help them manage their storage budgets more effectively. The company has integrated Permabit Technology's Albireo system into the StoneFusion operating system to enable seamless dedupe without interfering with advanced SAN/NAS features like active/active clustering, mirroring, replication and thin provisioning. The assumption is With NAS, customers move their existing NAS file shares or volumes to a file server connected to a CiS system. Preston exams This is sure to be an essential volume in any network administrator's or storage administrator's library. Because the traditional SAN and NAS storage devices are limited in scalability, they usually serve a single purpose, and typically only one administrator or a very limited number thereof. While traditional SAN and NAS arrays use command line interfaces (CLIs) or SMI-S API to automate certain operations, Software Defined Storage usually uses REST APIs that are much simpler to use and integrate. This book explains the similarities and differences of SANs and NAS to help you determine which, or both, of these complementing technologies are appropriate for your network. As the CiS system With SAN, administrators can use Storage vMotion or manual means to move volumes to the CiS system.