Infrastructure Choice is Best for Your SAN

What Infrastructure Choice is Best for Your SAN?

The storage array OEM, Dell EMC, HPE, Hitachi, IBM and NetApp are primarily offered as all-flash storage, with hybrid flash and spinning disk. The flash with non-volatile memory express (NVMe) flash drives available in enterprise arrays. But HPE arrays and DELL EMC Powermax are using NVMe as connectivity for storage-class memory as a cache layer. Standard specification and features include input/output per second (IOPS) that run petabytes (PB), Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity to hosts. Dual controllers, replication, snapshots, encryption, thin provisioning and data reduction are common. Hitachi  VSP F- and G-series: Read More.. IBM FlashSystem, StorWize and DS arrays Read More… NetApp  AFF/FAS, Solidfire and E/EF-series. Read More... Dell EMC  VMAX/PowerMax, Xtremio, Unity, SC, and PowerVault ME4 products Read More.. HPE’s 3PAR and Nimble arrays Read More...

How to Hook Up a SAN?

Options for SAN connectivity are

• TCP/IP
• WAN
• Fibre Channel
• iSCSI
• FCoE

SAN or NAS: Ways to Connect Your Data:

When building a storage network, your basic decision is SAN vs. NAS. The choice will impact how you access your data.