Nothing Like The SAN

SAN - The (not so) Little Network That Could...

A SAN is a creature combining 2 hot buzzwords (Storage, Networks) using a pointless word (Area).
A SAN is a way to acknowledge that "it is no wonder the IT managers go nuts - the disk space keeps filling!"
In short - a SAN puts the hosts in one place, the disks in another place, and lets everyone fight over a network.
Linux is quite in infant with regards to its SAN support - here is one area where its older brothers and sisters fare better...
...But with recent kernels, this is changing.

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