1. SAN Benefit Analysis
Once deployed, SANs operate as a utility making additional storage accessible to resource and application servers as needed, routing data to servers on demand, and routing data from disk to tape servers for archiving. A SAN is an alternative to traditional server-attached storage. ... For large data centers with over a hundred system and application servers, the cost of maintaining server-attached storage is high. ... With server-attached storage, designers are forced to provision extra capacity at each server. ... To be a successful alternative to server-attached storage, a SAN must deli...
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