[TriLUG] "basement" SAN

[Dan Monjar]

--On Friday, October 08, 2004 08:50:25 AM -0400 Ryan Leathers 
<Ryan.Leathers at globalknowledge.com> wrote:

> I think the conventional wisdom these days Dan is that we have either file
> level access or block level access being NAS and SAN respectively.  So for
> example, while a Fiber Channel SAN clearly uses its own network you might
> also have an iSCSI SAN which shares the same IP/GigE network used for all
> sorts of other traffic.  SAN is less about the "dedicatedness" of the
> network or protocol and more about the type of I/O - file or block.
>
> A practical example might help...
> A NAS might be selected for use by a mail server which needs tons of
> storage but need not be fast.
> A SAN might be selected for use by a database system where read/write
> speeed is everything.
>
>

Interesting... thanks!
-- 
Dan Monjar