Tag: SAN Basics
8.1 File based Storage Systems (NAS) Overview
There are 2 types of traditional storage techniques used in any organization data centers. They are
Block storage
File storage
Block storage shares raw devices...
7.7 Using Sub-LUN Auto Tiering techniques in SAN Infrastructure
Sub-LUN Auto-Tiering is another storage Capacity Optimization Technique which helps organization to tier different types of storage disks based on their speed, cost and...
7.6 Using Deduplication techniques in SAN infrastrucutre
Deduplication is also one of the Storage Capacity Optimization techniques which will identify the duplicate data and making sure that duplicate data is not stored...
7.5 Using Compression techniques in SAN infrastrucutre
Compression is one of the Storage capacity optimization technique which can help organizations to store more data by using less storage capacity. For example, a...
7.4 Traditional and Virtual Storage Provisioning Overview
Traditional Storage Provisioning
It is also known as Thick Provisioning, In Traditional storage provisioning, physical storage drives are logically grouped together on which a required...
7.3 Storage Provisioning and Capacity Optimization Techniques
The storage space from the storage systems is assigned to the individual physical hosts or VMware (hypervisor) hosts whenever it is requested. This allocation...