Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesDespite pronouncements from some, the days of the logical unit number (LUN) are not over. We look at the LUN in SAN management: How to create, share, provision and manage a LUN By Antony Adshead The logical unit number (LUN) has been a bedrock concept in storage for decades. It’s the fundamental “soft” way in which physical media is partitioned in block access
Reading Time-approximately: 9 minutesZoning can be set up according to server, storage and SAN switch. Discover what type of zoning to use, how zone sets extend SAN segmentation and the various zoning schemas. By Robert Sheldon, Simon Gordon and Garry Kranz SAN zoning gains importance once your SAN includes more than a couple dozen devices. During the early days of SAN, there was
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesMicron unveiled NVMe SSDs with seven form factors this week, all with PCIe Gen 4 performance. The new family of SSDs could take Micron deeper into the data center. By Adam Armstrong First Published: 08 Oct 2021 Micron continues its focus on the data center, as evidenced by its release of the 7400 PCIe Gen 4 family of SSDs Wednesday.
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesWhile only a small number of hardware vendors offer DPUs, the technology has significant implications for IT storage systems — and the admins who manage them. By Brien Posey While data processing units are a hot trend in IT storage, the basic concept behind them is not entirely new. Modern computer operating systems such as Windows and Linux perform computationally
Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesTiered storage is a method for assigning different categories of data to various types of storage media to reduce overall storage costs and improve the performance and availability of mission-critical applications. By Robert Sheldon, Garry Kranz and Dave Raffo A tiered storage architecture categorizes data hierarchically based on its business value, with data ranked by how often it’s accessed by users and applications. The data
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesBy Tekmart Enterprise Support Follow these steps to recover the password on the CLARiiON and VNX array. You’ll need to connect a PC to the Service Port COM1 on the SP – there is one port on each SP Management Module. Use a null modem cable. For a video demonstration, refer the attachments section. You need to create a PPP
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesNot all storage virtualization is created equal. Get familiar with the types, methods and implementation considerations before you buy hardware or software for your organization. By Jessica Lulka To choose the right storage virtualization tool, be sure to look at both file- or block-based virtualized storage, storage virtualization methods and the main business and technology considerations during the evaluation process.
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesOrganizations that want to extend traditional network file shares across data centers, branch offices and public cloud infrastructure have many options. By Kurt Marko The global distributed file system has been available since the early 1980s, when Carnegie Mellon University developed the Andrew File System. It became one of the first platforms developers built for a new era of networked
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesWhich type of NAND flash memory is best for your environment? We break down five major NAND flash options, their benefits and where they work best. By Erin Sullivan NAND flash was largely developed to give flash memory a fighting chance in the market against the competition, such as hard disks and other magnetic storage options. By cutting the costs
Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesLearn the important capacity, performance and reliability differences between multilayer flash when it comes to adding SSD storage to your organization. By Marc Staimer Flash, a.k.a. NAND, SSDs continue to be a hot topic for IT pros. They are found in storage arrays, NAS, appliances, drives and PCIe memory cards. Flash SSDs have rapidly become part of every storage acquisition
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