A study of Storage Area Networks and issues in its management

A data center has hundreds of servers and storage devices running on virtual machines that can be deployed and migrated over servers as per the requirement. If each server uses local storage, migration of this storage and restoration is mandatory. An attempt to organize and track storage throughout the data center is quite tedious. Using a dedicated storage system like a storage array, it possible to collectively monitor and manage such a network. A storage area network is essentially a network dedicated to storage devices. A storage area network can interconnect devices in all its layers, therefore improving storage availability. Interconnecting all elements in SAN also reduces the chances of a single point of failure. Using the storage devices collectively improves their utilization. SAN offers to manage and maintain all devices in the network. Although SAN is beneficial, it has drawbacks when configuring, monitoring, and managing components in a large-scale network. This paper consolidates the problems associated with SAN and offers possible solutions to overcome them.

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The Design and Implementation of Intelligent High-Speed Disk Storage Protocols

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.513-517.889 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 513-517 ◽

pp. 889-892

Author(s):

Jin Xing Shen

Keyword(s):

Data Storage ◽

High Speed ◽

Storage System ◽

Area Network ◽

Time Data ◽

Storage Area Network ◽

Disk Storage ◽

Network Storage System ◽

Memory Buffer ◽

Storage Area

In this paper, through the analysis of the redundant array of independent disks system (RAID), storage area network system (SAN), network storage system (NAS), based on RAID on the system FPGA is used to design a set of intelligent high speed disk storage protocol, through the test and analysis can meet the continuous data acquisition, the real-time data storage needs, in the software through providing high access speed increases memory buffer, large storage capacity and higher data security.

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Improved storage area network method for backup approach

Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ◽

10.11591/ijeecs.v17.i3.pp1493-1498 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 1493

Author(s):

Sarmad K. Ibrahim ◽

Saif A. Abdulhussien

Keyword(s):

Area Network ◽

Traffic Data ◽

Storage Area Network ◽

Storage Devices ◽

Storage Network ◽

Network Method ◽

Share Data ◽

Storage Area ◽

And Storage ◽

Better Than

<span>Storage Area Network (SAN) could be a dedicated storage network which carries the info between servers and storage devices. SAN offers flexibility to implement and share data between servers and remote devices instead of the traditional method that reduced the performance of service. This paper improves SAN backup method to increase the CPU utilization and reduce the load on the link; the result shows that the improved method is better than of traditional in terms of response time in FTP about 36% while the traffic data is about 3%.</span>

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Paradigm Shift From Storage Area Network to Hyper Converged System : A Review

International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science Engineering and Information Technology ◽

10.32628/cseit195631 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 181-184

Author(s):

Jinal Panchal

Keyword(s):

Data Center ◽

Paradigm Shift ◽

Data Centers ◽

Data Transfer ◽

Area Network ◽

Storage Area Network ◽

System A ◽

Long Run ◽

Storage Area ◽

To Come

From the strong based foundation of storage area network infrastructure in the long run Industry while the evolvement of the technology towards better, faster, agiled deployment of architecture in data center leads to gaining the acceptance of the converged system which takes accountant of complexity, space, power consumption or different parameters beyond the costs. For the intensive need of data transfer, new hardware and software refurbishment is implemented for more powerful storage systems and to come up with green storage, data centers with higher outgrowing application needs are targeted for energy saving and bound utilization of resources involved.

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The Analysis of Modern Data Storage Systems

NBI Technologies ◽

10.15688/nbit.jvolsu.2019.1.5 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 25-30

Author(s):

Vadim Shevtsov ◽

Evgeny Abramov

Keyword(s):

Data Storage ◽

Cloud Storage ◽

Storage System ◽

Area Network ◽

Storage Area Network ◽

File Storage ◽

Hardware System ◽

Data Volume ◽

Storage Area ◽

Block Storage

Today, Storage Area Network and Cloud Storage are the common Storage System. Storage Area Network includes NAS, SAN, DAS systems. Cloud Storage includes object storage, file storage, block storage. Storage Area Network is an important technology because it may give a lot of data volume with a high recovery chance and secure access, work and central management with data. Cloud Storage has many advantages: data mobility, teamwork, stability, scalability, quick start. The main threats include destruction, theft, corruption, unauthentication, replacement, blocking. Storage Area Network components (architecture elements, protocols, interfaces, hardware, system software, exploitation) have a lot of vulnerabilities. Cloud Storage may be attacked by software, functional elements, clients, hypervisor, management systems. A lot of companies design storage solutions: DropBox, QNAP, WD, DELL, SEAGATE.

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Cloud Storage Virtualization Technology and its Architecture

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.713-715.2435 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 713-715 ◽

pp. 2435-2439 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Yuan Yuan Hu ◽

Lu Wang ◽

Xiao Dong Zhang

Keyword(s):

Cloud Computing ◽

Cloud Storage ◽

Area Network ◽

Storage Area Network ◽

Storage Virtualization ◽

Storage Devices ◽

Architecture Model ◽

Platform Architecture ◽

Virtualization Technology ◽

Storage Area

Based on cloud computing and cloud storage, this paper discussed three kinds of typical virtualization technology in cloud computing, that is, storage virtualization based on host or server, storage virtualization based on storage devices, and storage virtualization based on Storage Area Network (SAN). In addition, application value of storage virtualization technology was discussed. What’s more, platform architecture model of cloud storage was proposed, and the characteristics of cloud backup were discussed as an example.

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