PC disk server software.DataCore Software have launched SANmelody Lite, a $199 Windows software package that turns PCs into disk servers. It is claimed to be the simplest and most compatible way to assign, allocate To reserve a resource such as memory or disk. See memory allocation. and manage storage space over a local network. Using ISCSI protocol, the software allows capacity-starved Windows and Linux Linux Nonproprietary operating system (OS) for digital computers. In 1991 Linus Torvalds of Finland began asking for volunteer programmers over the Internet to collaborate on the development of a UNIX-like OS for personal computers; the “1. machines to obtain additional disk space over a LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. just as if more disk drives were installed internally without the performance overhead, compatibility issues,, or complexity often associated with network shares. Comment: All you really need is an existing PC, even an older generation machine, an existing network a few high capacity disks and SANmelody Lite to build a real working SAN.SANmelody Lite is designed to introduce the Disk Server concept to as wide an audience as possible. It is able to support more than one terabyte One trillion bytes. Also TB, Tbyte and T-byte. See tera and space/time. (unit) terabyte - 2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes = 1024 gigabytes or roughly 10^12 bytes. (Note the spelling - one 'r'). See prefix. of disk (at current densities) and more than 22,000 I/OPs (Disk input/Output See I/O and PC input/output. (programming, operating system) input/output - (I/O) Communication between a computer and its users, its storage devices, other computers (via a network) or the outside world. The devices the computer uses to do this are called "peripherals". operations per second). www.datacore.com |
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