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 editor@sanstorageguide.com and are made on the affected page. Funding is set out on the disclosure page.
Posts (5)
- 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.
- storage-networking
NVMe-oF vs iSCSI vs Fibre Channel: SAN Transport Guide
Compare NVMe-oF vs iSCSI and Fibre Channel for a small SAN: NVMe/TCP, FC-NVMe, fabric requirements, multipathing and workload-dependent latency.
- 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.
- 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.