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Reducing costs and increasing the quantity and availability of data have always been concerns for IT departments. Booting
up with a local area network (LAN) has long been one effective way of meeting those needs. However, what you might not know
is that storage area network (SAN) booting with iSCSI conne (...)
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... However, what you might not know is that storage area network (SAN) booting with iSCSI
connections ... Download <strong>Technical White Paper: iSCSI Boot</strong>.
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2010-03-11
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The storage industry provides an abundance of white papers discussing the ever-changing data management and retention regulations,
the need for business continuity, and disaster recovery. The core of these data services is the ability to copy, move, and
replicate data—locally and far away. Unfortunatel (...)
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Extending SAN Connectivity for Engenio Arrays. Source: QLogic Corporation. Document Type: White
Paper Description: The storage industry provides an abundance of ...
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2010-03-11
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The days of storage area networks (SANs) built with hubs and based on private, arbitrated loops are gone. Today’s fully public
switches—which include a variety of switch features—make managing large SANs a lot easier. The key to a flexible SAN is the
switch’s ability to create zones, which allows (...)
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Zoning: The Key to Flexible SAN Management. Source: QLogic Corporation. Document Type: White
Paper Description: The days of storage area networks (SANs) built ...
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2010-03-11
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VMware and blade servers have taken the IT world by storm. Virtual server use has grown over 50 percent, and blade servers
account for 12.5 percent of all new servers. Can you incorporate them into your existing frameworks? Yes. Routers can scale
server numbers with virtual interfaces, and with fibre cha (...)
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Scaling SAN Connectivity on VMware. Source: QLogic Corporation. Document Type: White Paper
Description: VMware and blade servers have taken the IT world by storm ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Are ever-increasing demands for data accessibility causing your storage area network (SAN) to stretch beyond its limits?
And as you consider various solutions, are you concerned that your IT budget is being stretched too thin? Put those worries
to rest: SAN consolidation solutions can extend the life of (...)
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Reducing TCO with SAN Consolidation. Source: QLogic Corporation. Document Type: White Paper
Description: Are ever-increasing demands for data accessibility ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Microsoft System Management Server 2003 and Operations Manager 2005 storage monitoring solutions provide the necessary tools
to centrally manage and monitor Windows client and server infrastructure. Now, Sanbolic’s LaScala clustered volume manager
and related products offer a complementary toolkit whic (...)
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... to Centrally Manage SAN Storage Configuration and Assignment for Microsoft Windows Servers.
Source: Sanbolic. Document Type: White Paper Description: Microsoft ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Realize the benefits of storage area networks (SANs) by using public or private networks. The benefits of SANs include centralized
data management, back up, and restoration of data, as well as remote archiving for disaster recovery and business continuity.
Host bus adapters (HBAs), switches, and multipro (...)
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Benefits and Methods of SAN Extension Using QLogic Switches and Routers. Source: QLogic Corporation. Document
Type: White Paper Description: Realize the benefits ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Storage area networks (SANs) are key components in IT organizations, as they provide access to and protection of critical
data. Managing data storage is becoming increasingly complex, with regulatory and corporate requirements dictating national
disaster protection. Whether your company is near or far, r (...)
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SAN Infrastructure for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity. Source: QLogic Corporation. Document Type:
White Paper Description: Storage area networks (SANs ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 is frequently deployed in small or midsize applications. And while many customers view
it as an excellent small network-attached storage (NAS) solution, they often move to larger, proprietary file server appliances
when their needs expand beyond its capacity. This ap (...)
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... and SAN Storage Systems Using Melio Cluster File System With Microsoft Windows Storage
Server 2003 R2. Source: Sanbolic. Document Type: White Paper Description ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
The enterprise environment continues to evolve and change. Regardless of technology breakthroughs and system designs, storage
area networks (SANs) continue to provide IT with severe administrative challenges. But by implementing a cost-effective and
robust core-to-core solution, system administrators can (...)
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Extending the SAN for SANbox 9000 Core Switches. Source: QLogic Corporation. Document Type: White
Paper Description: The enterprise environment continues to ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Computer storage holds the lifeblood of today's economy. From movies, music, books, and classroom materials, to corporate,
personal, and financial data of all sorts, everything is being stored digitally. For this reason, the information and the
knowledge derived from today's Internet-reliant world have b (...)
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Unleashing the SAN In Your IP Network. Source: Stonefly. Document Type: White Paper
Description: Computer storage holds the lifeblood of today's economy. ...
Published:
2011-10-19
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The network attached storage (NAS) model, based on network file systems (NFSs), creates a number of issues for high-performance
computing clusters (HPCC) systems. NFS is oriented toward access, not performance—which means that it does not scale as needed
for growing HPCC systems. It also adds another l (...)
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High-performance SAN Connections for HPCC Systems. Source: QLogic Corporation. Document Type: White
Paper Description: The network attached storage (NAS) model ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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One of the main concerns now facing IT managers is how to keep the interoperability of their service area networks (SANs),
without sacrificing functionality. What can you do to make your SAN “share everything and play nice”? In fact, there are many
options available for extending SAN fabrics. The res (...)
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Integrating SAN Fabrics via N_Port Bridging. Source: QLogic Corporation. Document Type: White
Paper Description: One of the main concerns now facing IT managers ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Most IT managers have proven, cost-effective ways to increase the return on investment (ROI) of existing infrastructures—that
is, storage area networks (SANs). SANs provide high-availability storage to servers within corporate infrastructures. Connecting
low-cost servers to SANs makes business sense, a (...)
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Connecting Low-cost Servers to SAN. Source: QLogic Corporation. Document Type: White Paper
Description: Most IT managers have proven, cost-effective ways to ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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An ever-increasing demand on storage area networks (SANs) has meant a necessary evolution of throughput standards. SAN administrators
are now burdened with multiple generations of SAN host bus adaptors (HBAs)—and unwieldy management overhead. A scalable HBA
architecture might provide just the functions (...)
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Scaling SAN Fabric Throughput Using 4Gb-per-second HBAs. Source: QLogic Corporation. Document Type: White
Paper Description: An ever-increasing demand on storage ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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KernSafe iStorage Server is an IP SAN solution that allows for quick exporting of existing storages, such as disk images,
physical disks, partitions, etc., to a client’s machines. The software thus delivers immediate benefits, allowing storage
to be consolidated, virtualized, and centrally managed. Thi (...)
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Document Type: White Paper Description: KernSafe iStorage Server is an IP SAN
solution that allows for quick exporting of existing storages, such as disk images ...
Published:
2011-02-23
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The limited distance capabilities of storage area networks (SANs) make it difficult for IT managers to share, protect, and
move data over areas greater than ten kilometers. Using routers and switches that link SANs over Internet protocol wide area
networks (IP WANs) is one way to approach this difficulty (...)
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SmartWrite—Accelerating SAN-over-WAN Performance. Source: QLogic Corporation. Document Type: White
Paper Description: The limited distance capabilities of ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Permanent node-to-node data paths through a service area network (SAN) fabric are surprisingly inefficient. Some interswitch
links (ISLs) become oversubscribed, while others are underused, and don’t allow you to maximize the function of your existing
switch investments. Unclog your SAN’s data paths (...)
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ISL Trunking: Automatic Traffic Management at the Heart of the SAN. Source: QLogic Corporation. Document
Type: White Paper Description: Permanent node-to-node ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
The first step to a successful storage area network (SAN) implementation is preplanning. Architecting a SAN not only helps
solve issues of storage consolidation, it facilitates day-to-day data center support and maintenance. A SAN investment should
save support dollars, not require additional support res (...)
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... Source: QLogic Corporation. Document Type: White Paper Description:
The first step to a successful storage area network (SAN) implementation is preplanning. ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Ideally, your service area network (SAN) permits an uninterrupted flow of data all the time. Unfortunately, with changes
to the SAN fabric—when a server comes online, or when storage ports are added—the attendant tape backups might cause a serious
lapse in the flow of data. However, an interoperable (...)
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... Source: QLogic Corporation. Document Type: White Paper Description:
Ideally, your service area network (SAN) permits an uninterrupted flow of data all the time. ...
Published:
2010-03-11