Monday, June 14, 2010

LUN Masking vs. Zoning The potential for any server on a SAN to mount and access any drive on the SAN can create several problems. The two most prominent ones are disk resource contention and data corruption. To deal with these problems, you can isolate and protect storage devices on a SAN by using zoning and LUN masking, which allow you to dedicate storage devices on the SAN to individual servers. Zoning Many devices and nodes can be attached to a SAN. When data is stored in a single cloud,...