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Storage networks

Storage networks

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Storage networks

- [Instructor] Storage networks have unique needs because they are used for bandwidth-intensive communications between computing systems and the storage arrays that support them. There are two main types of network storage. Network-attached storage or NAS are storage devices that connect to a network and provide storage services to other devices on that network. NAS devices are typically fairly simple and self-contained. Devices accessing NAS storage use standard storage protocols such as the CIFS protocol used to access file shares on Windows systems or NFS, which is used for similar purposes on Linux systems. Larger storage needs require the use of storage area networks or SANs. These are massive arrays of devices that serve networks with very large storage requirements. SANs differ from NAS storage in several ways. First, SANs appear to the systems using the storage as raw disks that the operating system may format and use…

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