From the course: Cert Prep: SNCP Foundations (S10-110)
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SAN failover
- [Instructor] We're going to take some of the fiber channel learnings that we just reviewed and apply them to the ethernet for both file and block IO. A lot of these will include exam topics. Starting with this familiar diagram. This time it's ethernet and not fiber channel. And this time it's NAS, network-attached storage, for NFS and SMB. NFS stands for network file system. It's a Unix way to share folders from the array to the server, very tried and true. It's been around for a long time, continues to be in popular use. SMB is the Microsoft equivalent. It stands for server message block, and it basically shares file folders. When you have a PC at work and it has a Z drive or a Q drive or something like that, typically it's using SMB. Obviously if you're able to consolidate your storage, then you're able to professionally manage snapshots and recovery. If necessary, you can professionally manage replication and business continuity and disaster recovery. So consolidating your…
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