Deployments and Tests in an iSCSI SAN

iSCSI storage area networks (SANs) offer an alternative for building SANs. Consolidating storage in a SAN offers storage management and scaling benefits for data centers, and iSCSI support in Windows Server 2003 makes connecting servers to an iSCSI SAN easier and more affordable. Read this technical briefing to understand best practices and the benefits of using an iSCSI SAN with SQL Server 2005.

SAN - Storage Area Network

Normally in Microsoft servers distribution computing and load sharing is possible but its only within their platform. We can share database within different platforms like windows, Linux and Solaris but we should use some third party software's to implement it. Here is a Network Topology to reduce this disadvantage SAN (Storage Area Network). Benefits of this Network is you can share your data as well as server information's. When a server is in fault we have switch to backup servers but in this we can switch over any server which is in SAN so that it reduces the failure of real time servers. To know more about SAN browse this wiki.