Tag: Storage Area Networks
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....