Tag: Storage Area Networks

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4.2 Fibre Channel (FC) SAN Components

FC SAN is made up of several physical and logical components. Such as  Host bus adapters and converged network adapters FC Switches and directors FC Storage Arrays FC...

4.1 Introduction to SAN Protocols

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3.9 The next generation RAID techniques

The use of RAID technology started approximately 20 years ago and there are no significant advancements on the RAID technology till last 5-6 years....

3.8 What is Hot Sparing ?

A hot sparing refers to a process that temporarily replaces a failed disk drive with a spare  drive in a RAID array by taking...

3.7 Overview of RAID 6 and its use cases

RAID 6 works in the same way as RAID 5, except that RAID 6 includes a second parity element to enable survival if two...

3.6 Overview of RAID 5 and its use cases

RAID 5 is a versatile RAID implementation. It is similar to RAID 4 because it uses striping. The drives (strips) are also independently accessible....