Making use of a SAN (storage area network) provides some incredible benefits. I won’t go into depth but at a high-level you often get: 1. Excellent hardware redundancy for data storage, more-so if you are using multiple arrays but even most enterprise single arrays can provide N+1 redundancy. Now we can tolerate power failures, and […]

Currently I am working on integrating some 10Gbe switches into an existing 1Gbe network. Being completely new to 10 Gbe I wasn’t prepared for the volley of new terms, acronyms, and gotcha’s that were thrown my way. Initially I had a very hard time finding answers to some basic questions. So I figured I would […]