Attached Storage (DAS) (4)
In the direct-attached storage vs SAN debate, SANs have been the clear option for massive-enterprise, virtualised environments. This contrasts in comparison to a DAS (straight attached storage) device which is committed to the computer system it straight connects to. The disk arrays in both NAS and DAS are equivalent in function and operation, meaning you can create comparable RAIDS and partition types on both.
For Sun, Honeycomb involved putting NAS disks in the identical all round enclosure as various servers and using an sophisticated file technique to speed applications up. This idea didn’t spread broadly outside Sun but did lead, when Sun was purchased by Oracle, to the supercharged Exalogic and Exadata boxes.
I directly bought, installed, configured, and personally evaluated a assortment of storage devices ranging from low-cost, couple of hundred dollar solutions, to some very cool and critical hardware, which includes some enterprise solutions that price upwards of … Read More