SAN Architecture. A storage area network (SAN) architecture connects multiple servers in a network to a centralized disk storage repository consisting of one or more storage arrays. SANs greatly ...

As an example, you might create an area that contain the LUNs 11 through 20, another 21 through 40. Some organizations use special numbers to identify arrays or tape devices; whatever method you ...

SAN devices are disk arrays located on a network storage device shared with multiple servers–up to 16 servers, for these models. To each server operating system, however, the storage that a SAN ...

Brocade Communications Systems is set to offer two Fibre Channel switches that fit into IBM BladeCenter server enclosures, giving Big Blue's blades another way to access storage area networks.

Software-defined storage avoids this as it is hardware agnostic and will run on any X86 server – so avoiding supplier lock-in. SDS also allows the use of existing hardware, which drastically ...