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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. Student work - Sally Hassan Adher. Under the supervision of Professor- Rasha. SAN: Storage Area Networks
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Student work -Sally Hassan Adher Under the supervision of Professor- Rasha
SAN: Storage Area Networks Definition:A SAN is a dedicated network that is not separate from LANs and WANs. It is generally used to connect all the storage resources connected to various servers. It consists of a collection of SAN Hardware and SAN software; is a high-speed sub network of shared storage device is a machine that contains nothing, Connects a group of computers to high-capacity storage devices, connect servers to data storage devices through a technology like fibre channel
Types of networks LAN - Local Area Network WLAN - Wireless Local Area Network WAN - Wide Area Network MAN - Metropolitan Area Network
NAS vs. SAN Network-attached storage (NAS): is file-level computer data storage connected to a computer network providing data access to heterogeneous network clients. NAS provides both storage and a file system. This is often contrasted with SAN (Storage Area Network), which provides only block-based storage and leaves file system on the "client" side Despite their differences, SAN and NAS are not mutually exclusive, and may be combined as a SAN-NAS hybrid, offering both file-level protocols (NAS) and block- level protocols (SAN) from the same system. An example of this is Openfiler, a free software product running on Linux Visual differentiation of NAS vs. SAN use in network architecture