Brief on storage area network

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What is SAN and what are its advantages?

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Brief on storage area network

A storage area network (SAN) is a dedicated high-speed network that interconnects and offers shared pools of accommodation devices to various servers.

A SAN moves storage resources off the common user network and reorganizes them into an independent, high-performance network. This enables each server to access shared storage as if it were a drive directly attached to the server. When a host wants to access a storage device on the SAN, it sends out a block-based access request for the storage device.

ADVANTAGES;

• Great availability.
• Greater fault susceptibility.
• Centralized storage management.
• Faster backups.
• Global file systems.

Rapid data movement.

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