Employing DataCore’s storage virtualization software in conjunction with direct attached storage is a very price-productive and pretty simple to implement way to get a fairly speedy SAN. For Sun, Honeycomb involved placing NAS disks in the exact same overall enclosure as many servers and employing an sophisticated file system to speed applications up. This notion didn’t spread extensively outside Sun but did lead, once Sun was bought by Oracle, to the supercharged Exalogic and Exadata boxes.

You may not know even though, there will undoubtedly be diminishing returns for each drive you add to a RAID. When we move into bigger arrays of storage, we start to see the straight attached storage acronym: DAS. In other words, the difficulty with storage requirements is that there seems to be so numerous of them. This post is largely meant to help conceptualize the variations involving DAS, SAN and NAS — not deliver … Read More