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Guide to enterprise storage concepts

I am looking for a simple guide to enable me to understand  storage concepts for mid-level organizations. How to read and   understand  the specs of storage (also preferably  an anatomy with pictures & explanation of storage  pref. HP 3PAR 7400c) eg. Snapshot methods, dedupe, compression. What are the factors that can help me to decide on purchasing the right storage.
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Our go-to for storage is Microsoft's Storage Spaces. We've been deploying Scale-Out File Server (SOFS) clusters since 2012 went RTM. In the Server 2016 era we have a number of features built-in to the OS that would cost big bucks on a SAN.
  • Storage Replica
  • Hyper-V Replication
  • Stretch Cluster
  • Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) SOFS
  • Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) Hyper-Converged

Storage fabric between SOFS and compute (in our case Hyper-V) can start out at 4x 10GbE paths with Multi-path IO (MPIO) and SMB Multichannel. From there we can move into RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) via 10GbE, 40GbE, or even 100GbE via 2 to 4 paths per.

We avoid the iSCSI pain and the high cost of Fiber Channel in hardware and skillsets.

We have a lot of blog posts on our experiences:
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Thank you Philip for the resources note and links.  However, I was looking for something different.  A guide to understand the "storage specs".
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That was very well explained Gerald.  Is there any site where I can get the explanation of various specifications of storage. Or any site where I can make comparison between   two storage servers.
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