Introducing Storage Networking

Summary

In this chapter, we provided you with an overview of SAN technologies so you can further explore storage virtualization in Chapter 13. With 500-page books dedicated to storage networking alone, we couldn’t cover everything in just one chapter. However, with a good understanding of how storage networks work, along with an appreciation of the hardware devices involved, you’re ready to see how storage virtualization is further changing how we look at storage. Turn to Chapter 13 to see how you can manage and view entire storage systems that traverse several physical locations as single logical entities.