Sunday, 12 October 2014

What is LUN masking? - Storage Basics-6

Controller abstracts all the physical disks to a single virtual disk and hence all servers will be able to see all the hard disk. Error generated by one server can impact the complete disk subsystem. LUN masking is the method by which servers will get access to the space they are allowed to. Server cannot read and write on the LUN allocated to other server.

LUN is a kind of filter which restricts the access between server and storage. There are two types of LUN masking:-

1.Port based LUN masking:- In port-based based LUN masking server will see all the disks attached to the storage port. It is not recommenced as there is no restriction between server and hard disks.

2.Server based LUN Masking:- Server will see only its own disk. It will not allow server to see or access the other disks.

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