Storage Area Network Implementation on an Educational Institute Network Computer Networking and Communication

TL;DR

This paper discusses implementing a Storage Area Network (SAN) in an educational institute to enhance data accessibility, system manageability, and network availability, addressing modern storage infrastructure needs beyond just faster devices.

Contribution

It proposes an intelligent SAN infrastructure tailored for educational environments, emphasizing centralized storage, high availability, and heterogeneous access to meet increasing data demands.

Findings

Enhanced network availability achieved

Centralized storage simplifies management

Supports heterogeneous access to data

Abstract

the storage infrastructure is the foundation on which information relies and therefore must support a company's business objectives and business model. In this environment, simply deploying more and faster storage devices is not enough; a new kind of infrastructure is needed, one that provides more enhanced network availability, data accessibility, and system manageability than is provided by today's infrastructure. The SAN meets this challenge. The SAN liberates the storage device, so it is not on a particular server bus, and attaches it directly to the network. In other words, storage is externalized and functionally distributed across the organization. The SAN also enables the centralizing of storage devices and the clustering of servers, which makes for easier and less expensive administration. So the idea is to create an intelligent SAN infrastructure that stretches to meet increased demands, allows highly available and heterogeneous access to expanding information.