Difference between revisions of "Disk arrays"

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A wikipedia:disk array is a disk storage system which contains multiple disk drives (HDD or SDD). It is differentiated from a disk enclosure by providing additional functionalities and capabilities such as fault tolerant designs, cache memory, different RAID levels, deduplication, encryption and even virtualization.

Primary vendors of storage systems include

Some disk arrays such as NetApp allows to group disks creating pools of HDD, SDD or mixed.

Identify available vendors offering disk array solutions and their OS such as Netapp ONTAP
Identify main advantages of using a disk array solution vs using computer internal disks or a internal array controller
Identify main characteristics of disk arrays fault tolerant designs
Identity hot plugging capabilities of disk arrays
Understand different connectivity technologies such as Fibre Channel, NFS or iSCSI availables on disk arrays products.

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 A [[wikipedia:disk array]] is a disk [[storage system]] which contains multiple disk drives ([[Hard disk drive|HDD]] or [[SDD]]). It is differentiated from a disk enclosure by providing additional functionalities and capabilities such as fault tolerant designs, cache memory, different [[RAID]] levels, [[deduplication]], [[cryptography|encryption]] and even [[virtualization]].
-Primary vendors of storage systems include Dell EMC, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hitachi Data Systems, Huawei, IBM, [[NetApp]] and Oracle Corporation.
+Primary vendors of storage systems include
+* Dell EMC
+* Fujitsu
+* Hewlett Packard Enterprise
+* Hitachi Data Systems
+* Huawei
+* IBM
+* [[NetApp]]
+* [[Oracle Corporation]]
 Some disk arrays such as [[NetApp]] allows to group disks creating pools of HDD, SDD or mixed.