Storage Area Network (SAN) services provide centralized, highly-out there, highly-scalable data storage for server systems located in the IST Data Center. This reduces the excess capacity expected for every server, enables administrators to centralize storage management, and permits storage resources to be swiftly reallocated to many servers. The file server is connected to the SAN in a way that enables the storage to be treated as regional. SAN devices are disk arrays situated on a network storage device shared with many servers-up to 16 servers, for these models. The users communicate with the file server’s operating program and it is the operating technique that hands off disk requests to the storage subsystem.

While operating at slower speeds and providing decrease throughput than Fibre Channel, iSCSI uses typical networking gear, can operate over lengthy distance for remote backup, and is simple for network administrators to realize and manage.

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