June 9, 2007

A Storage Area Network (SAN) is an architecture to attach remote computer storage devices such as disk array controllers, tape libraries and CD arrays to servers in such a way that to the operating system the devices appear as locally attached devices. Although cost and complexity is dropping, as of 2007, SANs are still uncommon outside […]

Terkait dengan communication channel, pada storage terdapat tiga type communication, yaitu : Bus Architecture Switch Architecture Matrix Architecture Bus Architecture, melalui bus inilah komponen-komponen Storage seperti Front End Director, Cache, Back End Director terhubung. Bus technology ini murah dan simple penerapannya, namun jeleknya nggak bisa di scale-up.. Ilustrasi dibawah ini terlihat walau 16 host path […]