SAN management

MUST READ Learning Guide: SAN management ARTICLE - Take a look here for advice, tips and articles on tools, techniques and concepts that will help you plan a SAN, increase utilization and keep your networks humming 24/7. Storage area network management overview ARTICLE - This guide covers the essential storage area network concepts of configuration, provisioning, performance and capacity management, and monitoring and troubleshooting.

NEWS: 1 - 3 of 99

	Storage Decisions San Francisco 2008 Session Downloads Storage Decisions | 24 Nov 2008 ARTICLE - Download all the sessions from the Storage Decisions San Francisco 2008 conference on topics including backup, SANs, storage virtualization, storage management and green storage.

	Virtual Instruments introduces Fibre Channel SAN monitoring tool SearchStorage.com | 13 Nov 2008 ARTICLE - Virtual Instruments launches its Traffic Analysis Point appliance to help companies monitor and analyze traffic on Fibre Channel SANs.

	Storage Decisions New York 2008 Session Downloads Storage Decisions | 01 Oct 2008 ARTICLE - Download all the sessions from the Storage Decisions New York 2008 conference on topics including DR, SANs, backup, storage virtualization, storage management and green storage.

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EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE: 1 - 3 of 663

SAN MANAGEMENT EXPERTS
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	How to evaluate and purchase a SAN 25 Nov 2008 TIP - The Royal Horticultural Society's network manager Martin Taylor guides users through the process of evaluating and purchasing a SAN.

	FAQ guide: How Fibre Channel over Ethernet can consolidate networks Submitted By: Greg Schulz | 10 Oct 2008 FAQ - Greg Schulz answers the questions he hears most often about FCoE, including when FCoE products will be available and how FCoE compares to iSCSI and 10 Gigabit Ethernet.

	Learn all about SANs Submitted By: Joel Lovell | 22 May 2008 DATA STORAGE HANDBOOK - Before a SAN admin can size a SAN, they need to know how much storage capacity and performance they need, what SAN protocol to choose, and the proper RAID level for the SAN array.

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REFERENCE & LEARNING: 1 - 3 of 46

	Storage Decisions Session Downloads: Storage Systems & Networking Track (San Francisco 2008) Storage Decisions | 24 Nov 2008 STORAGE DECISIONS - This Storage Decisions San Francisco 2008 track explores networked storage infrastructure trends and the implications of recent storage systems developments.

	Fibre Channel over Ethernet FAQ 14 Oct 2008 FAQS - Greg Schulz answers the questions he hears most often about FCoE, including when FCoE products will be available and how FCoE compares to iSCSI and 10 Gigabit Ethernet.

	Storage Decisions Session Downloads: Storage Systems & Networking Track (New York 2008) Storage Decisions | 01 Oct 2008 STORAGE DECISIONS - This Storage Decisions New York 2008 track explores networked storage infrastructure trends and the implications of recent storage systems developments.

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WHITE PAPERS

	Sun Fire™ X4540 Storage Server: The Industry's First Open Storage Server Published by: Sun Microsystems, Inc. | 04 Dec 2008 DATA SHEET - The Sun Fire™ x4540 storage server, the first open storage server, integrates industry-standard compute and storage components in an open architecture and runs the Solaris™ OS and Solaris ZFS.

	Sun™ Storage 7000 Series Family: Radical Simplicity Combined with Breakthrough Price/Performance Published by: Sun Microsystems, Inc. | 04 Dec 2008 DATA SHEET - The Sun™ Storage 7000 Series family helps simplify storage deployment and management with its unprecedented easy-to-use management interface, DTrace Analytics software, and self-healing capabilities.

	Rethink Storage with Sun™ Storage 7000 Systems Published by: Sun Microsystems, Inc. | 02 Dec 2008 BOOK - Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems bring a new level of simplicity and price/performance to the Open Storage market by integrating innovative storage software with hybrid storage pools and an open architecture solution.

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WEBCASTS: 1 - 3 of 8

	SAN is Dead?! Long Live Virtual Grids? - Expert Webcast VIEW WEBCAST PREMIERED:   31 OCT 2006, 09:00 EST (14:00, GMT) SUMMARY:   Learn as IDC's Robert Gray, presents IDC's latest research, which indicates that the next generation of storage infrastructure needs and solutions will depend on virtualization and grid-based solutions.

Best Practices for Migrating Your First Generation SANs to Cisco MDS 9000 - Vendor Webcast VIEW WEBCAST PREMIERED:   09 NOV 2006, 12:00 EST (17:00, GMT) SUMMARY:   This Webcast will address unique features of the MDS 9000 platform that enable a seamless migration. It will also review examples of recent migrations and leading practices that help demystify the fear that is often associated with a SAN migration.

A Better Way to Ensure SAN Availability and Performance SLA's: See inside your SAN - Vendor Webcast VIEW WEBCAST PREMIERED:   12 OCT 2006, 14:00 EDT (18:00, GMT) SUMMARY:   Attend this live Webcast to learn how to ensure SAN availability and address SAN challenges related to: Remote replication Application performance Storage consolidation You will also have the unique opportunity to chat with storage industry experts.

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DEFINITIONS: 1 - 3 of 22

	RAID 18 Feb 2004 WORD - What is RAID? RAID (redundant array of independent disks; originally redundant array of inexpensive disks) is a way of storing the same data in different places (thus, redundantly) on multiple hard disks. By placing data on ...

	storage area network 02 Mar 2004 WORD - A storage area network (SAN) is a high-speed special-purpose network (or subnetwork) that interconnects different kinds of data storage devices with associated data servers on behalf of a larger network of users. Typically, a ...

	virtual provisioning 18 Jul 2008 WORD - Virtual provisioning is a strategy for efficiently managing space in a storage area network (SAN) by allocating physical storage on an "as needed" basis. This strategy is also called thin provisioning. Virtual provisioning ...

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MAGAZINE CONTENT (free subscription required): 1 - 3 of 193

	A turning point for storage networking: Hot Spots Storage Magazine | 10 Nov 2008 COLUMNS - By 2010 to 2011, most data centers should be onboard with converged networks. Will you be ready? If not, here's why you need to be.

	Thin (or chubby) provisioning catching on Storage Magazine | 12 Oct 2008 TOOLS, TRENDS & ANALYSIS -

	Quality Awards IV: It's a tie--EMC and NetApp share enterprise array honors Storage Magazine | 11 Aug 2008 FEATURES - In the four years we've conducted our Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Award for enterprise arrays, we've never had co-winners ... until now. EMC Corp. rode to the top on very strong scores in the product ...

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	SEE ALSO - Topics Related to SAN management:  ISCSI SAN, SAN switch, SAN virtualization and consolidation, Multiprotocol or unified storage, Fibre Channel (FC) SAN