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Storage Area Network (SAN) : 

Storage Area Network (SAN) is a high-speed special-purpose network that interconnects different data storage devices with associated servers and other computing devices. Typically, a storage area network is a part of the overall network of computing resources in a data centre. SANs support disk mirroring, backup, restore, archival and retrieval of archived data, data migration from one storage device to another, and the sharing of data among different servers in a network.

SANs are built up from variety of hardware components. RAID Storage systems, switches, Servers, backup devices, Interface cards and cabling all come together to form a SAN. Devices in the SAN are connected by a high speed, high capacity network. Currently, fibre channel is the most popular technology for SAN implementation because of its high speed, non-blocking architecture, its ability to scale from 1 Gbps to 8 Gbps and beyond, and its flexibility to allow many different high level protocols to operate over its infrastructure.

Storage System

> HDS SE-9990 subsystem

• Disk capacity 85 TB 
• Storage on Demand
• Cache memory 104 GB 
• 48 hours battery backup for cache memory.
• Shared Memory 8 GB
• 96 hours battery backup for control memory
• RAID-1 and RAID-5 Disk configuration system.

>XP24000 Storage

• Disk capacity 150 TB 
• Storage on Demand
• Cache memory 256 GB 
• 48 hours battery backup for cache memory.
• Shared Memory 14 GB
• 96 hours battery backup for control memory
• RAID-1,RAID-5 and RAID-6 Disk configuration system.

> EMC Clariion CX3-80

• Disk capacity 75 TB 
• Storage on Demand
• Cache memory 16 GB
• RAID-1 and RAID-5 Disk configuration system

> EMC Clariion CX4-80

• Disk capacity 150 TB 
• Storage on Demand
• Cache memory 16 GB and Fast Cache 200 GB
• RAID-1,RAID-5 and RAID-6 Disk configuration system

Integrated NAS/SAN facility for higher scalability.