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So here's the short version while I wait to get on a conf call...
Is it like Windows sharing? No, SAN works at a lower level than that. Imagine sharing a disk from one system to the other, but below the operating system. I can boot one server off a hard drive that i've shared from a system in another room, another data center, another city even. So, when I say I can boot off the disk, I mean it's present at the BIOS level of things.
And when I said 2700 hard drives, it's not as bad as it sounds. Though the server does indeed see 2700 unique drives (5400 devices), we're only talking about 10GB chunks here. We carve all of our SAN drives into 10GB chunks. So when someone asks for more disk, like an ATM machine, it must be in increments of 10.
SAN allows me to give 200GB to one server, while giving 2TB to another. I can grow or shrink the amount of disks allocated on the fly, and even replicate disks (think ghost) at will, with a few commands. it makes disk allocation REALLY flexible.
Is it like Windows sharing? No, SAN works at a lower level than that. Imagine sharing a disk from one system to the other, but below the operating system. I can boot one server off a hard drive that i've shared from a system in another room, another data center, another city even. So, when I say I can boot off the disk, I mean it's present at the BIOS level of things.
And when I said 2700 hard drives, it's not as bad as it sounds. Though the server does indeed see 2700 unique drives (5400 devices), we're only talking about 10GB chunks here. We carve all of our SAN drives into 10GB chunks. So when someone asks for more disk, like an ATM machine, it must be in increments of 10.
SAN allows me to give 200GB to one server, while giving 2TB to another. I can grow or shrink the amount of disks allocated on the fly, and even replicate disks (think ghost) at will, with a few commands. it makes disk allocation REALLY flexible.
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From: Houston, Texas
Originally Posted by PopTarts,Aug 2 2006, 03:08 PM
Lovely color, lovely car, nice wheels, nice photography.
Please tell me you aren't selling it.
Please tell me you aren't selling it.
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From: Yrmom, MD
Originally Posted by clawhammer,Aug 2 2006, 03:07 PM
So who is she?
https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showt...0&#entry7758710
She's not with that guy or anything, I'll let Brian explain the rest if you're curious
