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Behind the firewall: LSI Logic and StorageTek team up for storage arrays ... EMC lures users from Veritas with freebies ... ILM backlash begins ... Brocade's Meteor will descend from the heavens soon.
Less tape talk, more tape testing: Less tape talk, more tape testing
The benefits of application-specific storage: In order to reap the benefits of application-specific storage, storage managers need to communicate with IT and business managers to gain a better understanding of their storage needs.
Creating effective data storage policies: It's essential to create sound strategic, tactical and organizational policies to keep your organization from running amuck.
Companies are doing interesting things with object-based storage that might make ILM useful.: Storage Bin: So far, all of the ILM talk has been fluff. But there are some companies that are doing interesting--and potentially revolutionary--things with object-based storage that might make ILM useful.
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Features
How to get the best deal
Database archiving done right
Slash SAN costs
Consolidating NAS pays off
Tape type matters
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Tools, Trends & Analysis
No SAS for Networked Storage
Virtual Servers in a Storage World
What's Worth Outsourcing?
Steamship Authority Sees Less Tape on the Horizon
Storage Pros of the World Unite!
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Snapshot: Do You Boot From the SAN?: Do You Boot From the SAN?

Issue: Mar 2004


Do You Boot From the SAN?



1. Do you boot servers from the SAN?
2. Which platforms?
3. Why do you boot from the SAN?
4. Why don't you boot from the SAN?

Booting off the storage area network (SAN) is surprisingly popular--39% of respondents. Furthermore, 38.6% of those who don't said that it was because they hadn't implemented it yet. But the news is not all good. Some say that their SAN isn't reliable enough to manage boot operations or that there are support considerations. Sometimes a server's boot image is out of a storage manager's hands. With all these issues, for many readers, the feeling about SAN boot seems to be, as one reader put it: "Why would I?"





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