Storage and protocols guide
Hello Experts,
Can someone please summarize all storage and protocols available in the market today? I believe I read a document a while ago here on this site, where someone compiled all storage and protocols available for Windows and Unix servers
Can someone please provide the guide and summarize all types of storage and their protocol? please consider virtual and physical servers, all windows server versions and Unix, Linux, what are the hardware requirements to implement a full storage HA environment? include for each protocol what is required, for example for SAN, HBA, switches, cable, protocol, and provide HA for all components
Fiber channel, ISCSI, SMB, NFS, and so on
Can someone please summarize all storage and protocols available in the market today? I believe I read a document a while ago here on this site, where someone compiled all storage and protocols available for Windows and Unix servers
Can someone please provide the guide and summarize all types of storage and their protocol? please consider virtual and physical servers, all windows server versions and Unix, Linux, what are the hardware requirements to implement a full storage HA environment? include for each protocol what is required, for example for SAN, HBA, switches, cable, protocol, and provide HA for all components
Fiber channel, ISCSI, SMB, NFS, and so on
Later 3 work over general purpose IP network you already have.
Which virtualisation technology you envision?
e.g. check here the "Array type" box in this page:
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=san
Windows NT server 3.51 supports only SMB. later versions may be better...
All UNIX servers after 1980 supports one or other version of NFS
Please define your HA requirements. Maybe overloaded windows server that reboots in 10 minutes suits them.
Full storage will not bring you very far, just make copies of a DVD with your data.
Which virtualisation technology you envision?
e.g. check here the "Array type" box in this page:
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=san
Windows NT server 3.51 supports only SMB. later versions may be better...
All UNIX servers after 1980 supports one or other version of NFS
Please define your HA requirements. Maybe overloaded windows server that reboots in 10 minutes suits them.
Full storage will not bring you very far, just make copies of a DVD with your data.
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thanks gheis, I was looking for a explanation of each protocol, and storage definition, rather than a compatibility guide
Anyone else?
Anyone else?
It is a bit overbroad to ask. Just some 7 protocols each described on short 1000 pages...
If you dont elaborate on context you are asking, sadly all answers will be wrong.
If you dont elaborate on context you are asking, sadly all answers will be wrong.
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Note: Any of the file system protocols I mentioned (AFP excluded) can be implemented by a storage array or by a server using internal storage or another storage array as the back-end... both Windows and Linux, though with varying results depending on how you mix-and-match.
Infiniband is general purpose cable just like wifi or ethernet. There are no extra storage provisions in protocol.
Thanks for the clarification gheist - I've only dealt with one storage system that (supposedly) used Infiniband for connectivity, and in that case I suppose it was really just SAS storage.
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