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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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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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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: