SAN management

Email Alerts

Register now to receive SearchStorage.com-related news, tips and more, delivered to your inbox.
By submitting you agree to receive email from TechTarget and its partners. If you reside outside of the United States, you consent to having your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States. Privacy

  • Storage magazine's data storage products of the year

    In this issue, we reveal this year's Storage Products of the Year winners. Traditional and not-so-traditional products and services earned honors this year, addressing such issues as data deduplication, solid-state storage and storage cloud services...  E-Zine

  • Lessons learned from creating and managing a scalable SAN

    Carl Follstad crafted a SAN at the University of Minnesota that provides high availability for 280 TB of storage at three sites. The SAN is scalable, delivers the needed performance and can be managed by a limited staff. Also, read more about how dat...  E-Zine

  • Is it time for SAN/NAS convergence?

    Cadence Systems' Mike Forman loves the economics of his unified infrastructure, but it's not all good. Real-life stories from early adopters of SAN/NAS convergence. In addition, read more about zoning for security and Linux for storage.  E-Zine

  • Expanding SANs: How to scale today's storage networks

    With hundreds of hosts on their SAN, Merrill Lynch's Jerry Curtis and Max Riggsbee will hit the wall soon. How can you scale today's storage networks? Also, learn about growth models for SANs, integrating SAN islands and the best finds for scaling.  E-Zine

  • Evaluating the benefits of IP SANs

    In this issue, learn why many companies are starting to employ iSCSI at the edge for less critical or performance-intensive storage, and then using it or other IP protocols to connect to central FC storage area networks (SANs) across the wide area. P...  E-Zine

  • Optimizing your enterprise database storage

    Taking your SAN beyond backup to run production databases requires the right layout, good practices and better integration. The benefits: high performance, floor-space savings and streamlined operations. Also get information on how to justify your st...  E-Zine

  • software-defined storage

    Software-defined storage (SDS) is a data storage approach in which all the programming that controls storage-related tasks exists solely in software external to the applicable storage systems.  Definition

  • paging

    Paging is a method of writing data to, and reading it from, secondary storage for use in primary storage, also known as main memory. Paging plays a role in memory management for a computer's OS (operating system).  Definition

  • Multipath I/O (MPIO)

    Multipath I/O (MPIO) is a Microsoft framework designed to mitigate the effects of a host bus adapter (HBA) failure by providing an alternate data path between storage network devices.  Definition

  • data center bridging (DCB)

    Data center bridging (DCB) describes the four technology enhancements to existing 802.1 bridge specifications standards being developed by the IEEE 802.1 Data Center Bridging Task Group.  Definition

  • converged network adapter (CNA)

    A converged network adapter (CNA) is a single network interface card (NIC) that contains both a Fibre Channel (FC) host bus adapter (HBA) and a TCP/IP Ethernet NIC.  Definition

  • virtual LUN or thin LUN

    A virtual LUN (virtual logical unit number) is a representation of a storage area that is not tied to any physical storage allocation. Virtual LUNs are used in thin provisioning (also known as virtual provisioning) for storage area network (SAN) mana...  Definition

  • logical unit number (LUN)

    A logical unit number (LUN) is a unique identifier used to differentiate separate devices (each of which is a logical unit) as addressed by a SCSI, iSCSI or Fibre Channel (FC) protocol.  Definition

  • LUN masking

    LUN masking is a further constraint added to zoning, subdividing access to the port so that only LUNs authorized to access a specific server can access the corresponding port.  Definition

  • virtual storage area network (VSAN)

    A virtual storage area network (VSAN) is a logical partition in a storage area network (SAN). VSANs allow traffic to be isolated within specific portions of a storage area network.  Definition

  • enterprise storage

    Enterprise storage is a centralized repository for business information that provides common data management and protection, as well as data sharing functions, through connections to numerous (and possibly dissimilar) computer systems.  Definition

  • See more Definitions on SAN management
About SAN management

SAN management and administration of storage area networks includes information on RAID configuration, capacity management, SAN performance, troubleshooting and more.

Back to top