EMC Storage Product Knowledge Sharing

There are different type of SAN like IP SAN, NAS over SAN etc... We will discuss about Fibre Channel SAN. It gives you more option in order to manage and minimize downtime means reducing company cost.In general if you think storage environments, physical interfaces to storage consisted of parallel SCSI channels supporting a small number of SCSI devices. With Fibre Channel, the technology provides a means to implement robust storage area...

I tried to collect some good information on iSCSI driver details which was request by some reader. Hope this will help you on iSCSI queries. Leave comment if it is useful... I will try to write iSCSI overview in next entry. Happy Reading!!!!!!The iSCSI driver provides a transport for SCSI requests and responses to storage devices via an IP network instead of using a direct attached SCSI bus channel or an FC connection. The SN 5400 Series Storage Router, in turn, transports these SCSI requests and responses received via the IP...

You have two fabrics running off of two switches. You'd like to make them one fabric. How to do that? For the most part, it's simply connecting the two switches via e_ports. Before doing that, however, realize there's several factors that can prevent them from mergingg Incompatible operating parameters such as RA_TOV and ED_TOV Duplicate domain IDs. Incompatible zoning configurations No principal switch (priority set to 255 on all switches) No response from the switch (hello sent every 30 seconds) ...