Determine a drive is SAN

Question

Can somebody please let me know how we can determine if a local disk or SAN.

Thanks

Answer 1

SAN is a Storage Area Network topology incorporated into a physical network topology, it which means that storage is provided for sharing/storing data via the network (usually tcp/ip)...It is similar to NFS (Network File Share), or using the Microsoft specific Server Message Block protocol to designate a share on the server with a drive letter used - Universal Naming Convention where a shared drive is mapped to a drive letter in the form of '\\servername\foo'.

Can you please clarify if that is what you are looking for? How to determine if a drive is mapped to the shared drive such as '\\servername\foo'?

Have a look at this thread here...on mapping drives and disconnecting mapped drives here. And here to check if a path is on a network here.

Edit: Thanks to zombiesheep for the clarification due to my confusion after being told by somebody else during my training for CompTIA Network+ 2009.....duh!

Hope this helps, Best regards, Tom.

Answer 2

Thanks for replying so fast. Actually I need to know how do we figure out if a drive is SAN or just a local drive.

Answer 3

There is no "OS agnostic" way to determine if the file system is back-ended by SAN.

That is, please let us know what OS you're using so we can help determine the OS specific way to determine if this (other than asking your storage administrator).