Introduction to Storage Area Networks (SAN)

This is an Introduction to Storage Area Network presentation that I did for Herzing University in Atlanta, GA.

[mcakinyiadams]

This presentation was designed and delivered with the beginner in mind from the first second to the last one. It couldn't be made any better. Amazing.

[themaconeau]

This is the first video I have ever watched regarding a SAN and how it plays a part in a network.
I am starting to create my own network and this has helped me get a much better handle on SAN vs DAS.
Very much appreciated, thank you ;)

[shulondamba]

Loved your video...I was just screened for an SAN Administrator position and I had no clue what the recruiter was talking about...she was ready to hire me but I couldn't in good faith allow her to place me in a position that I had no clue of how to perform role that I would have been hired for..so I got on here to find out in detail what this IT SAN was all about and your video was most helpful in my learning process...thanks for sharing with us...

[sbrown]

She was awesome, very professional and easy for me to understand. Please give us more informational videos on the Data Storage industry.

[kcssweetboy]

Amazing presentation. There is no single thing to point at your presentation. It was perfect and easy to understand. Keep up the good work.

[dyo]

I came here after watching another Introduction to SAN video, and this one cleared everything up with the presentation images.

[charlestimbers]

I am a beginner being introduced to this technology and it helped a great deal.

[bernadettesolorio]

Thank you Georgette, I am in my senior year (major Network and communications management), currently in a class for storage.  I just subscribed.  Thank you for your thorough presentation.  

[azedascomputertechnologies]

This is awesome. I really appreciate it as an effort. I would like to see more in the area of: real world installation, maintenance, management, backup and setting SAN online for remote access.

Thanks.
Keep it up.

[praveensinghai]

Awesome explanation for beginners. Thank you so much.It would be great if you can make some more videos like this.

[mallen]

Great pace and presentation for beginners. I appreciated the visuals, also. They helped a lot. Thank you!

[dougspitler]

This helped clear up my understanding of SAN. Thanks so much for the video!

[albertobanegas]

Awesome information! Thank you so much for dedicating some of your time for this purposes.

[izzylogan]

Excellent presentation.  Very informative.  Thank you!

[sty]

Tanx alot for the video!! I'm interviewing for a desktop support agent job in a few days, and it was noted that I should have knowledge of a SAN.
 

[hemal]

Thanks for your presentation. I was looking for basic info from quite long time but this one clears my doubts. 

[mitchellheick]

I help manage the IT infrastructure of a medium sized business utilizing a Dell Poweredge SAN and Dell Eqiologic storage. Initially, when looking at the stack of hardware, it can be hard to discern the specific rolls of the Nodes involved in making up the entire San. A basic medium sized Business SAN consists of Blade servers, Basically Huge RAM sticks, what look more like RAM 2x4's when you slide them out of the Chassis. The Blade severs, can run the entire virtualized environment in real time while simultaneously backing up to a separate set of storage array disk, the Dell Equilogic storage array. The two are connected Via two San Switches utilizing the Fiber channel or in our cat 40Gig Dat cables. So our SAN consists of two Blade servers, connected via High speed DAT cables that run to two switches for redundancy. These switches connect to the wider network but also have the separate high speed connection, as mentioned above, to the storage array. To which, it can back up at very high speed. This in turn separates the devices handing processing and Hosting of services and the Device actually storing/saving the information. All this together offers much higher redundancy, storage scaelability high speed data transfer between the virtualized environment and storage, and higher connection speed for hosting services to the wider network. This vid helped me realize what I was looking at.

[anushajohn]

Very good starter tutorial and guide would definitely recommend it to beginners.

[MrTomwhall]

Great intro.  Helped our team tremendously.

[itpugil]

Great presentation and introduction to SAN. I was already aware of what it was but this improved what I knew. Had this saved in one of my playlists for years. Downloaded this as an mp4 since I was on a ship and the internet via cellular data can be crappy. Excited to know more since this is a pretty old video and SAN tech most likely has improved a lot by now, or replaced entirely by a better alternative technology.