Chapter 4
Chapter 4
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JUNIOR STANDING
Storage Technologies
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Introducing Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks
-uses two or more drives in combination to create a fault-tolerant system that protects against
physical hard drive failure and increases hard drive performance.
Then, if a drive fails, the system will automatically grab the hot spare drive to replace the
failed drive and rebuild or restore the missing data.
Network Attached Storage and Storage Area
Networks
Network attached storage
(NAS)- file-level data storage
device that is connected to a
computer network to provide
shared drives or folders, usually
using SMB/CIFS.
Network Attached Storage and Storage Area
Networks
Storage area network (SAN)-
an architecture used for disk
arrays, tape libraries, and optical
jukeboxes to appear as locally
attached drives on a server.
It uses a Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) as its transport protocol, which allows SCSI
commands to be issued over Fibre Channel.
Fabric-devices are connected to each other through one or more data path
iSCSI
Internet Small Computing System Interface or iSCSI is an Internet Protocol (IP)-based storage
networking standard for linking data storage facilities.
Allows llows clients to send SCSI commands over a TCP/IP network using TCP port 3260
an communicate using Gigabit Ethernet or Fibre, and it can connect a SAN to multiple servers over a
distance.
network adaptor must be dedicated to iSCSI
iSCSI INITIATOR SOFTWARE
Reference:
MTA: Windows Server Administration Fundamentals: 98-365.Copyright © 2011 by John
Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.
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