I've just inherited a system and I'm having trouble understanding the SAN concept?
I logged into the unit (ip) and it tells me that it has a vdisk of 2.2tb (5x500GB) but when I go to the server I can't see a 2.2tb drive? I do see however in the disk manager 2 500GB drives that have a sx60 controller neither drive is initalised though?
Should my server see the individual drives? if so why would the san need it's own raid controller? How do I see the other drives on the san? Or has the last guy made a mistake?
Sorry I'd assumed until recently that a san was pretty much a nas!
I don't really need this thing any idea what I could do with it?