• Leo.Miller (2/14/2011)


    David Benoit (2/14/2011)


    They had a nice shiny new SAN installed to improve performance,

    Storage Area Networks are implemented for consolidation not performance, much like virtualisation is implemented for consolidation. You will always have an overhead above physically attached storage, dependant on the following (this list is not exhaustive!)

    • the array
    • the network cabling
    • the Host Bus Adapters
    • the IP or FC switches

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