KERNSAFE - iSCSI SAN Software and Storage Virtualization

Examples of the small office environment are dentists, accountants, construction, real estate, and the like that is, any office that has a relatively small number of employees working in close proximity and a continuing need to grow its storage. Individual desktop systems in small offices have the same disruptive effect when adding storage as they have in home offices, but they are often connected to a file server. However, these file servers face the same problems that individual office or home systems face when adding additional storage. Their owners do not want to disassemble them to add storage and may instead replace the system altogether.

Small offices are similar to home offices, except that they have more links and switches. In most installations, a switch can be used to attach either a new iSCSI storage controller, see figure 1.

Figure 1

Of all environments, a small office environment is the least capable of anticipating and designing the storage layout that can optimally support its workload. I therefore expect dual dialect systems to be very successful in small office environments that include both engineers and no engineers. Environments without heavy engineering design work will generally find iSCSI storage controllers to be the most appropriate equipment for providing IP-based storage.

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