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  • Five LUN management basics

    IT expert Brien Posey discusses five fundamental ideas storage professionals must understand when dealing with LUN management.

  • Five LUN storage questions for pros

    Learn what expert Brien Posey has to say to storage administrators about five questions they have about LUN storage in their environments.

  • Tough Metro vMotion requirements make for a dream infrastructure

    It's a virtualization administrator's dream: Moving a live virtual machine from one data center to another with no downtime. Supporting this dream means building a dream infrastructure to underpin the VMware Metro vMotion feature -- and that's no...

  • Examining Exchange Server 2010 LUN architecture

    When it comes to storage, Exchange 2010 is more flexible than previous versions. The one and two LUNs per database architectures are two options worth investigating.

  • VMware VADP and vSphere Data Protection FAQs

    VMware vSphere 5.1 administrators can choose between vSphere Data Protection and a third-party backup tool -- both communicate with VMware vStorage API for Data Protection. Get answers to frequently asked questions about VMware VADP and VDP...

  • LUN zoning

    LUN zoning is a method of configuring SAN fabric to match logical unit numbers (LUNs) to the proper servers. As a rule, end devices such as hosts can only see and access storage within their zone. Limiting access in...

  • LUN masking

    LUN masking is a further constraint added to zoning, subdividing access to the port so that only LUNs authorized to access a specific server can access the corresponding port.

  • virtual LUN or thin LUN

    A virtual LUN (virtual logical unit number) is a representation of a storage area that is not tied to any physical storage allocation. Virtual LUNs are used in thin provisioning (also known as virtual provisioning)...

  • Choosing the appropriate page size for sub-LUN automated tiering

    Sub-LUN automated tiering can maximize SSD effectiveness. Learn the importance of choosing the right page size for sub-LUN automated tiering.

  • Three ways to configure iSCSI LUNs in a virtual environment

    Dennis Martin offers three ways to configure iSCSI LUNs with VMware and Hyper-V -- two using the hypervisor while the other bypasses the hypervisor.

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