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by dthirlway

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I have been given the task of researching and planning the implementation of a SAN's at my work, we ran a number of terminal/citrix servers and am am looking to implement storadge area networks to help with our storadge of data.

What is a good starting point? What is the best technology and leading business in this area and are there any tips that people can give me?

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by sebastian zdrojewski

Hi, we have a running Citrix Metaframe environment at my company and are using an IBM SAN. Actually the SAN technology involves (usually) Fiber Channel backbone that interconnects servers with the storage itself. You'll have to choose whether you want to achieve high performance storage or capacity (respectively using SCSI or SATA disks) or both. I think you might find some good information on SAN here:

Introduction to Storage Area Networks
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245470.html?Open

Storage Area Network components
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/5515dafc-162f-4d37-a73d-c42f2e0bf17f1033.mspx

Hope this may help :))

by dthirlway

Thanks have read some of the material, one question I do have, is the SAN is multi protocal, if I have a SAN and store my database that is Solaris/orical, and solaris connects to it, can I then get windows to see the SAN as a drive and also connect to the same database. I dont see how this can be as they use different partition formates. The windows box should see the SAN device as a local drive, but wouldnt be able to see its contents ans it is a different file format (kinda like putting a unix formated drive into a windows 2003). Am I making sense?

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