Chapter 12. Application Studies
Although storage networks share common components in the form of servers, storage, and interconnection devices, the configuration of a SAN is determined by the upper-layer application it supports. A post-production video editing application may have different requirements than a high-availability OLTP (on-line transaction processing) application. Server-free tape backup applications may employ unique hardware and software products that would not appear in a SAN designed to support server clustering. Because SANs offer the flexibility of networking, however, you can satisfy the needs of multiple applications within a single shared storage configuration.
The application studies in this chapter examine SAN installations ...
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