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Design Considerations for Storage Area Networks

Overview Storage Area Networks (SANs) based on Fibre Channel architecture represent a radical departure from traditional server/storage configurations. Traditional parallel SCSI cabling is a thick umbilical cord that ties each group of disks to ownership by a single server. By severing this connection, Fibre Channel SANs allow storage to stand on its own. This enables a truly data-centric worldview, which was unachievable as long as each server was the exclusive owner of its own data. Servers also gain from this new freedom, since each now has access via the storage network to any disk resource. Designing Storage Area Networks thus requires a new way of thinking about the server-storage relationship. If servers, disk arrays and tape subsystems can be networked, entirely new possibilities emerge for optimizing and managing data access, data integrity and data management.

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Publisher	Vixel Corporation	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	August 2003
Format	White Papers
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