Editorial desk
SAN Storage Guide Editorial
The editorial desk that publishes SAN Storage Guide. It is a byline for the site's editorial process, not a person, and this page carries no author biography because there is no individual author to describe.
How this desk works
- Articles are researched from primary sources: vendor and project documentation, published standards and specifications, release notes, advisories, and measurements published by the people who took them.
- Drafts are produced with AI assistance and then edited against those same sources before publication.
- Nothing published here claims hands-on lab testing, benchmarking, or first-hand measurement. Where a figure comes from a datasheet or someone else's test, the article names the source.
- Corrections go to [email protected] and are made on the affected page. Funding is set out on the disclosure page.
Posts (8)
- san-fundamentals
SAN Design Reference Guide: The Docs and Rules That Matter
HPE's SAN Design Reference Guide, Broadcom and Cisco's best-practice docs, the five design rules they share, and how they scale down to a homelab.
- storage-networking
NVMe SAN Storage: What It Is and When a Homelab Needs It
NVMe SAN storage means NVMe commands over a fabric, not just NVMe drives in an array. Where NVMe/TCP fits and when a homelab should skip it.
- storage-networking
How to Implement SAN Storage: Design, Paths and Tests
Implement SAN storage the small way: pick a transport, build a dedicated storage link, zone then mask, prove multipath failover and test a restore.
- storage-networking
iSCSI vs NFS for VMware Datastores: Which to Pick
iSCSI vs NFS for VMware datastores: NFS is simpler to run on a NAS, iSCSI gives multipathing and VMFS features. Pick by array and sync-write needs.
- storage-networking
What Is a SAN Storage Area Network? Block Storage Explained
A plain answer to what a SAN storage area network is: block devices over a dedicated fabric, how that differs from NAS, and when the complexity pays.
- performance
SAN High Latency: Where to Look First
Trace SAN high latency through host queues, buffer-credit starvation and ISL oversubscription before checking array cache, rebuilds and thin pools.
- storage-networking
NVMe SAN Guide: NVMe-oF vs iSCSI vs Fibre Channel
Plan an NVMe SAN: how NVMe/TCP and FC-NVMe compare with iSCSI and Fibre Channel on fabric needs, multipathing, host support and latency.
- san-fundamentals
SAN Zoning and LUN Masking Explained
SAN zoning controls which ports communicate; LUN masking controls volume access. Learn how both fit Fibre Channel fabrics and independent paths.