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SAN management and administration of storage area networks includes information on RAID configuration, capacity management, SAN performance, troubleshooting and more.
IN THIS TOPIC:  NEWS (87) , EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE (357) , REFERENCE & LEARNING (32) , WHITE PAPERS , WEBCASTS (3) , DEFINITIONS (21) , MAGAZINE CONTENT (132)

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Learning Guide: SAN management
ARTICLE - Take a look here for advice, tips and articles on tools, techniques and concepts that will help you plan a SAN, increase utilization and keep your networks humming 24/7.
Storage area network management overview
ARTICLE - This guide covers the essential storage area network concepts of configuration, provisioning, performance and capacity management, and monitoring and troubleshooting.

  NEWS: 1 - 3 of 87
Storage area network management overview
SearchStorage.com | 31 Mar 2008
ARTICLE - This guide covers the essential storage area network concepts of configuration, provisioning, performance and capacity management, and monitoring and troubleshooting.
Compellent adds disk stroking and app tuning to SAN
SearchStorage.com | 20 Feb 2008
ARTICLE - Compellent's StorageCenter SAN improves block-level storage automation to offer granular quality of service features within disk drives.
Akorri casts its SRM net on storage virtualization
SearchStorage.com | 11 Feb 2008
ARTICLE - Akorri rolls out BalancePoint 2.0 with support for block storage virtualization, a new performance metric and scorecard reports.
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  EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE: 1 - 3 of 357
SAN MANAGEMENT EXPERTS
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How to size a SAN
21 Apr 2008
TIP - If your DAS storage infrastructure has reached its limits, your first step will be to know what your storage requirements are.
Learn all about RAID storage
Submitted By: Greg Schulz | 18 Feb 2008
DATA STORAGE HANDBOOK - This handbook describes the different levels of RAID technology and explains how storage administrators can choose the appropriate RAID level.
Learn all about LUNs
Submitted By: Greg Schulz | 09 Jan 2008
DATA STORAGE HANDBOOK - A LUN is the unique address for a SCSI device or a virtual hard disk partition in a RAID configuration. This handbook tells how to manage and partition LUNs.
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  REFERENCE & LEARNING: 1 - 3 of 32
HBAs explained
Bob Violino | 29 Apr 2008
HOST BUS ADAPTERS (HBAS) EXPLAINED - Even though HBAs are integral pieces of a SAN environment -- they essentially connect a server to the SAN -- many storage administrators do not know how to configure them
SAN Management
24 Oct 2006
ALL-IN-ONE RESEARCH GUIDES - In this updated guide on SAN management, storage administrators will learn how to use a SAN's resources to organize, provision and allocate that storage to users or applications.
Handbook: Best practices for SAN expansion
SearchStorage.com Editors | 07 Jan 2008
BEST PRACTICES - Best practices for SAN expansion include options for integrating SAN and NAS or iSCSI and Fibre Channel, as well as upgrading switches, disk arrays and HBAs.
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  WHITE PAPERS
Equallogic PS Series with VMware® - Virtual Servers Meet Virtual Storage
Published by: Dell | EqualLogic | 07 May 2008
PRODUCT LITERATURE - EqualLogic PS Series solutions deliver the benefits of storage consolidation in an intelligent, enterprise-class storage system that is easy to install, manage and grow.
New Deployment Methods for Desktops
Published by: Dell | EqualLogic | 07 May 2008
WHITE PAPER - Virtualization and diskless desktops are two deployment methods that enhance remote desktops, offering consolidation with fewer limitations.
Strategies for Reducing Datacenter Power Consumption
Published by: Dell | EqualLogic | 07 May 2008
WHITE PAPER - Strategies such as storage tiering, thin provisioning, and automated load balancing improve efficiency and utilization resulting in reduced power consumption.
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  WEBCASTS: 1 - 3 of 3
SAN School Lesson 12: Approaches to SAN Management - Expert Webcast

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PREMIERED:   03 FEB 2004, 09:00 EST (14:00, GMT)
SUMMARY:   There are lots of management considerations you need to be aware of when running your SANs. Who is in charge of the SAN, how to properly document your cables, managing tools and fabrics. This is a top down look at SAN management.
Deploying Optimal Solutions for Extending Storage Area Networks in the Enterprise - Vendor Webcast

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PREMIERED:   27 JAN 2005, 14:00 EST (19:00, GMT)
SUMMARY:   This webcast will examine the Cisco SAN Extension technologies available to you today and explain how to match the most appropriate technology according to the business and technical requirements of your organization.
Storage Management Survival School Lesson 2, Best Practices: Storage Management Operations - Expert Webcast

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PREMIERED:   10 AUG 2004, 09:00 EDT (13:00, GMT)
SUMMARY:   This lesson gets into the real nuts and bolts of storage management and how to accomplish those tasks more efficiently.
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  DEFINITIONS: 1 - 3 of 21
storage area network
02 Mar 2004
WORD - A storage area network (SAN) is a high-speed special-purpose network (or subnetwork) that interconnects different kinds of data storage devices with associated data servers on behalf of a larger network of users. Typically, a ...
oversubscription
09 Feb 2007
WORD - Oversubscription, in a SAN (storage area network) switching environment, is the practice of connecting multiple devices to the same switch port to optimize switch use. Each SAN port can support a particular communication ...
unified storage
20 Dec 2006
WORD - Unified storage (sometimes termed network unified storage or NUS) is a storage system that makes it possible to run and manage files and applications from a single device. To this end, a unified storage system consolidates ...
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  MAGAZINE CONTENT (free subscription required): 1 - 3 of 132
Is iSCSI good enough?
Storage Magazine | 12 Apr 2008
FEATURES - Organizations of all sizes have adopted iSCSI because it's easy to install, inexpensive, behaves just like Ethernet and doesn't require specialized skill sets like Fibre Channel does. But do analyst claims that iSCSI ...
Arrays score with both file and block storage
Storage Magazine | 13 Mar 2008
FEATURES - Multiprotocol arrays that support block- and file-based storage through a single controller give users the best of both worlds: NAS for file-based information, and Fibre Channel or ISCSI block-based storage for databases and ...
Ask the Expert: Concurrent write access
Storage Magazine | 13 Feb 2008
TOOLS, TRENDS & ANALYSIS - How can we have concurrent write access to our EMC SAN without corruption?
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SEE ALSO - Topics Related to SAN management: 
Fibre Channel (FC) SAN, ISCSI SAN, SAN switch, SAN virtualization and consolidation, Multiprotocol or unified storage


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