SAN Interview Questions and Answers for freshers and experienced pdf free download

1. What is SAN ?
2. What is the difference b/w SAN and NAS ?
3. Can you briefly explain each of these Storage area components?
4. What is the most critical component in SAN ?
5. How is a SAN managed ?
6.  What are the advantages of SAN?
7. Name some of the SAN topologies ?
8. What are the benefits of fibre channel SANs?
9. What environment is most suitable for fibre channel SANs?
10. What customer problems do fiber channel SANs solve?
11. How is fiber channel different from ISCSI?
12. Explain different types of RAID?
13. What is the difference between RAID 0+1 and RAID 1+0?
14. What is a HBA?
15. What is storage virtualization?
16. What is LUN Masking?
17. What is snapshot?
18. What is a Point-to-Point Topology?
19. What is the need for separate network for storage why LAN can’t be used?
20. What is RAID?
21. What are the advantages of RAID?
22. What are the types of disk array used in SAN?
23. Differentiate RAID & JBOD?
24. What is zoning?
25. What are the two major classification of zoning?
26. What are different levels of zoning?
27. What is storage virtualization?
28. What are two types of recording techniques on the tapes?
29. What is the different between mirroring, Routing and multi pathing?
30. What are the different types of clusters?