Currently data storage and its management have become a technical hot point and tendency following the popularization of internet. It has brought the network into a data-centered era. This thesis describes the SAN advantages and explains how enterprises use SAN to store and manage data, especially how they use open and standard FC ( Fiber Channel ) to flexibly utilize SAN, thus greatly expanding the distance between servers and storage equipment and increasing the possibility of more linkages. Enterprises are able to make use of the effective SAN-provided method of data spares to transmit a great amount of data packages between storage equipment and servers.
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