Hello,
We are starting to look at getting a small SAN for our business (maybe). Now I have never worked with a setup such as this, but I need to know what to look for. I know that there is a basic setup of a backplane that the drives plug into etc… and that if you want to expand you get buy more Hd’s or another backplane / Hd’s and connect through fiber channels etc… But how does this actually work?
Sooo…
#1 If I buy a HP / IBM / DELL SAN, and I have 1.5 TB of disk space, how do I partition this disk space into say 4 servers running 4 seperate servers with DB’s?
#2 What about memory & processors? If I add more disk space to a SAN do I add more processors or memory?
#3 Redundancy – How is this accomplished? Is this where I buy another back plane and mirror one to the other? Or can you set RAID arrays on this?
#4 Is there a good white paper that I can look at for this type of info?
Tx
Toby
