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Fitting storage building blocks together

Fitting storage building blocks together

From the course: Cert Prep: SNCP Foundations (S10-110)

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Fitting storage building blocks together

- [Instructor] Now let's match up business needs with storage building blocks. It's easy to over-engineer storage systems and put all of your data onto expensive systems which is not good. It's also easy to under-engineer your storage systems and go for the cheapest possible storage and hurt your business, which is really not good. Our task is to be smart and use the right storage for the job, servers, storage arrays, storage networks. Here we see SAN physical building blocks, servers connected to SANs, SAN switches, and SAN storage. Here we introduce the concept of logical view storage where the physical disks are configures into RAID groups and those storage are all organized into volumes and those volumes are assigned to logical names and then connected to servers so server applications can make use of that storage. Wow, that's a lot to get your head around. Why would anybody do something so complex and seemingly hard to manage? And the answer is SAN killer apps. SAN Storage killer…

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