Just saw this on AJB (Amercia's JobBank)

[Dennis Ruzeski]

SAN = Storage Area Network-
It's a pool of disks usually shared amongst a number of hosts. 

The difference between a NAS (Network Attatch Storage) and a SAN is in the presentation. A NAS is usually just a regular mount (via NFS). A SAN appears to the system as a 'sea of directories'.. The idea is simple, but I'm not explaining it well-- Can anybody else out there come up with a better analogy or method of explaining this?



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From: Joe [mailto:josephj at main.nc.us]
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 7:29 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: Just saw this on AJB (Amercia's JobBank)


Can someone enlighten me as to what SAN is?

Joe

frank at mogosystems.com wrote:

>Essential Accountabilities: Ensure availability of Unix Servers and SAN attached
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