Every technician dream that our home filled with bunch of techies stuff and that carry incredible, out of mind blowing task to entire home. such as Home PBX, Wireless bridge, or Broadcasting Movies from your home. but today, i will guide you to what is SAN and what relation between SAN and Data Center...
Data Center is a center that govern all telecommunication, network, security and even data storage in one single center. The meaning of center here is it can be clusters, merging together, stacking each other, multiple network monitoring.
NAS is Network Attached Storage. Its a independence device that have built in network card to be plugin directly to the router or switch at our home. it have webserver built in to manage its own IP address. so user can upload store the file remotely. difference between SAN and NAS is, in NAS, U NEED TO KNOW THE IP ADRESS OF THE DEVICE. Meanwhile, SAN, U NEED TO INSTALL INITIATOR IN ORDER TO MAKE IT NATIVE LOCAL HARD DRIVE IN YOUR COMPUTER.
SAN is Storage Attached Network that provide you storage for iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) in LAN (Local Area Network) environment networking. typically mean that others computer storage/hard disk/partition can be like native local storage inside your computer if its in the same network as yours computer even the partition/hard disk are at another server..
illustration are best way to describe this..
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| This is the physical topology how SAN being put in a network. |
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| This is Logical Topology how SAN share its storage.. |
How to build your own SAN? let me teach you how....
SAN requirement is :
1) SAN server can used old computer. depend on the requirement of the system.
2) FreeNAS software <---- this is a good linux software for setup SAN.
3) Router that support GigaByte LAN
4) RJ 45 depending on how long/many connection in your house..
5) Internet Connectivity to youtube how to setup FreeNAS 8.
That's all..... easy installation....
we will discuss about this when i have demand to build a SAN...
references :
Data Center
SAN (Storage Area Network)
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