SAN

SAN

1. tightly coupled network of multiple devices

2. Relatively Expensive, and hard to setup

3. connected disks appear and feel to the user as local drives

4. a combination of servers and storage

5. allows direct Fibre Channel connections

6. High speed and Low latency performance delivered

7. Delivers storage volumes at fastest possible speed, for apps like Video Editting, etc...

8. Requires Administration by IT staff

9. Used by large corporations, where 100s of employee can get 10s GB/s storage speed.

10. A Metadata server is connects the fiber channel switch and storage RAID arrays

11. Requires a separate private Ethernet connecton for file request traffic