Glossary of Terms: SAN Storage

Definition: SAN stands for storage area network. SANs is a network of storage devices shared by servers. It provides block-level storage that can be accessed by the applications running on any networked servers. Traditional failover clusters require shared storage (typically SAN) so that in the event of a failover the secondary cluster node has access to the same, up-to-date data as the primary node.

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