More articles by Charlie Schluting

Clustered file systems can give you an easy route to highly available storage. We outline some of the options.

Clustered file systems can give your storage environment greater resilience. Using Linux GFS, we show you an example.

The Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) protocol can ease the pain of iSCSI data storage management.

iSCSI is a media darling, but it might not belong on your demanding enterprise storage network. Weigh its benefits against Fibre Channel before proceeding, and remember that short-term cost factors have long-term consequences.

Routing for your storage network is a non-standardized thicket that's nothing like what you're used to on your IP networks, but it pays to understand how it works.

You can throw up a SAN in no time, but ensuring scalability takes careful planning.

SANs can do some pretty fancy things that would otherwise be impossible.

Networked storage isn't a plug-and-play proposition. Here's how to configure your configure your storage for optimal reliability.

Getting zoning right is key to building a manageable storage network. Here's what you need to know to structure yours.

Anyone can plug in a SAN. Understanding Fibre Channel domains, address assignment and VSANs will help you make that SAN resilient to change.

Troubleshooting a SAN requires some knowledge of how the underlying protocols work. Here's the Fibre Channel protocol in-depth.

Fibre Channel has long been the main storage area networking protocol, and for good reason.

It involves some tedium, but configuring disk arrays is the most critical part of building a SAN. Here's what you need to know.

We begin this new series with a look at what you need to know about key storage protocols.