1. Building a resilient IP Storage
IP Storage is an abbreviated term for Gigabit Ethernet backed Internet Protocol (IP) storage, which is
used in Storage Area Network (SAN) environment. Usually, in a traditional SAN environment, Fibre
channel framework is used. But with the advent of Gigabit Ethernet, internet protocol got
revolutionized, in such a way, that, it is now being used as an alternative to Fibre Channel SAN.
The implementation of IP SAN storage has yielded similar benefits, which are seen in Fibre channel
framework. And so this has increased the wide spread adoption of SAN’s in small to large scale
enterprise data center. Factually speaking, the deployment of SAN environment, since, its innovation in
1990’s, was shunned away, by most of the IT managers, of small to medium scale enterprises. Due to
the complexity and interoperability issue, in Fibre channel (FC), along with its expensive
implementation, the SAN deployment was mostly avoided.
But the option of storage over IP, offers an apt solution to all these issues, which are present in the
framework of Fibre Channel and lives up to the expectations fetched from SAN storage. In order to
simplify and ease the admin workload, over data management; many enterprises are in favor of the
Internet Protocol storage. Large enterprises in the world are going for a contemporary storage over IP,
as it supports class of applications, which pave way for securing their business goals.
IP storage implementation, allows the IT managers to go for the technological refreshments, which take
place in virtualization and consolidation fields. Since, IP network is ubiquitous, the inter connection of
Fibre Channel networks is possible and so the data storage becomes readily available, irrespective of its
geographical location. Companies are in total control of ownership, as it creates a flexible environment
for the SAN storage.
IP networking facilitates additional security and so the data storage over IP, facilitates encryption
format. Moreover, features like congestion, dynamic rerouting, data retransmission and session
integrity are also possible though Ethernet backed IP networked storage. With this support, the effect
on functionality failures, during disaster recovery can be almost nullified.
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