NAS and SAN Introduction 

Eli man you are absolutely wonderful.The passion you are putting into explaining IT is just awesome. Love you man keep it up!

Was studing up a little on the Cisco DataCenter Networking exams and came accross your channel. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with the rest of the world, great content very on point, even 7 years later.

ELI, just want to say that you are awesome. When it comes to anything that I need to learn IT related for my job, you're the best. You always explain it in such a way that is super easy to understand. Your knowledge is tremendous. Thank you. You've bailed me out on more than on occasion.

Eli, you're now my go-to-guy to understand these tech stuff. We need more ppl like you in college to keep ppl energized and inspired!

thank you very much. i am 41 years old that has Cerebral Palsy. i am still self learning IT beyond the basic stuff(remote desktop support, FTP. etc.........i love how you break everything down

Eli, whenever I want to see and enjoy computer things in practice, I watch your shows; as a first step. Your language, appearance, presentations ... are natural. I think you have passion of sharing what you know. Even though I was anti-hacker of these NAS protocols 8 years ago, I enjoy the way you explain how things work to real users. Keep the joy full journey going on, Eli the ComputerGod -): - Babu Alluri.

Thank you! Nobody else manages to explain this without going off on a tangent trying to demo something in some proprietary networking technology midway through. I love your high-level, plain language conceptual overviews.

Didn't expect such a wonderful lecture -- and free of cost too! I appreciate your painstaking efforts. God bless. Wish you a healthy, happy long life!

Eli, just wanted to thank you for sharing all you knowledge. I have been tossing around the idea of NAS for my home lately and knew nothing of SAN. I now will consentrate fully on building a SAN system. Thanks again!!

Hey, thanks man. All the videos I have seen so far are very informative. You cut the bs and get straight to the point. You are very easy to hear and understand. Thanks again

How is this even free... Your videos are my favorite. Always straight to the point yet informative. Thanks a million

I never comment on RU-vid videos but you’re the only one I love to watch you are very knowledgeable and you have excellent Teaching skills . Thank you so much

Wow! This training video is awesome. I'm working on my masters and part of my current class involves upgrading a client to use SAN. This overview is exactly what I needed! Thank you!

Man Eli, you are reeeeeally good at explaining things simply. I am an apprentiance in Germany, in my first year to become an IT Consultant. I watch your Videos when there is not much to do and I learn loads, every time!!! Really, I watched many videos from other guys already, but often they are just pretty confusing. You re tha MAN, man ;-)

Thanks Eli for sharing your precious knowledge,,, before watching this video i am planning to install NAS for my storage needs while in middle of video i switched my plan to SAN and all thanks to you for budget estimates for SAN keeps me stuck to my previous plan of using NAS and scheduling SAN for next 2-3 years... Thanks again

Eli, I have been a big fan of all your videos. Your videos help tech enthusiasts like myself who have yet to become 'experts' in a very encouraging non-intimidating manner. I hope eventually you will take us into more involved and deeper tutorials and trust that we can follow you. Many thanks and I hope you will continue to bring more wonderful sessions to us.

why does this guy not have more views, most instructive videos ive ever watched on youtube

im just bustin balls, i love you man, thank you for your videos, you are a total gangster at breaking everything down!!!

You are an exceptional teacher. Thanks for making these classes.

i like Map drive "sound" you've done @ 7:24 LOL good job Eli

Eli Your concept explanation skills are superb, it feels as if, I am taking a real world class of you.

Great introduction. It has made my understand of NAS and SAN a lot more clear now.

Hey Eli I know this is an older video but we're considering implementing it in our environment and I wanted to get some basic knowledge on both NAS and SAN and the differences between them. Thanks so much for explaining it so well and clearly.

Eli your explanation is simply the best! When I need to learn or deeply understand something, I check your channel first. You are way more than a computer guy ;)

one of the best explanations of virtualizations and SAN and NAS, thank you

Eli, came to your channel yesterday and instantly became a fan. Please do a detailed video on SAN.

A Sysadmin's Sysadmin. Excellent and straightforward explanation. Subscribed and will check out the rest of the lectures.

ELI you are the Best Sir. Love your classes. BR Wasef AlHakim

Hey Eli, You are a star. I have been watching many of your videos and you make them understand so easily man.

I love how clearly you are speaking english :)! No problems with understanding what you are sayin for foreigners

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Ur way of explantion is very helpful and it helping to visualize the stuff and understand very clearly..thank you and keep the same way

Am here in 2019 and i have become an instant fan of your channel,many thanks for the lessons

Spot on explanation especially on how Hyper-V/VM works on the SAN. Love it!

"Instances stored on SAN" , that was enlightment ! thankkkk you so much !

excellent explanation! Now I know, the nas we were running, was actually san. Our data was replicated to all three boxes. One of our new boxes went lost connectivity, but the data was still available. Thanks. Subscribed!

Best lecture, still highly relevant in 2021!!

I've just discovered you and your channel ... you SIR are an fucking GURU keep up your good work.

everything that i had learned for maaaany days, i understood it here much better just in 20 mins ...THANKS!

You explain complex technology in very simple way. You are great teacher

What a great explanation. Even a 10th standard guy can understand it. Thank you. You are the man.

Very Good. Your vids are some of the most valuable to the IT community. Thanks for your lessons. This is stuff I prefer being drawn out, and hearing first hand how it works. Sometimes, it's had to pull information off the spreadsheets.

Great explanation. Thank you. You are very animated and good at explaining complex concepts.

Your tutorials are awesome.. Huge fan of the way u teach.. U really go to depth of the topic.. Keep up with good work

great class! Even it's a class two years ago, I learned so much from your youtube class than any other vids out there.

Eli, are you planning to do a talk/video on the emerging Web Scale-Out Storage technologies and how enterprises are using them to create their own private Cloud within their IT Infrastructure? Also would love to know your thoughts on these new concepts of SDS, SDN, SDD etc... (Software Defined Storage, Software Defined Networks, Software Defined Datacenters) Thanks!

Enjoyed to learn his class. His body language was funning also you can learn things from him. easy to understand.

Thank you so much, this really helped me a lot, I recently started working in IT and your Video did what most written guides couldn't do for me, explaining SAN and NAS to me. Take my sub and I am going to check out more of your Videos! Great work!

first time i seen someone explain clear and its really awesome

thank you Eli for explaining the SAN and NAS

why dont you use your orange shirt any more?

I have seen many of your videos, and i must say great work! They're all very informative. Looking forward to watching many of your other videos in the future.

Thanks Eli for explaining these concepts so well and with such great clarity. I notice that you have created lot of amazing videos. Is there any TOC kind of thing so that we can watch these videos in a sequence and learn from them? If so please share.

Eli is simply the best.

Good explanation and I learnt very basic SAN & NAS. still looking for more storage area technologies.

I had a general idea before. I have worked with low end nas devices before and worked in an environment where sans were used. This however was very informative. Thank you

ELi you're a great source of inspiration, you make it look so much !

This is great lecture! i learned a lot. Just one comment as this video is almost 3 years old, many of the SANs today are moving to Ethernet from Fiber Channel utilizing fast connection of 1-/25/40 and even 100Gb/s Ethernet and with new virtualization switching protocols such as VXLAN, SRIOV the whole SAN gets much much faster.

Thank you, I doubt that I can use the info ever IMRL, but I am interested enough to pop by and learn a little. I am focusing on just making my own data and that of 5 or 8 machines safe, and keeping the corrupt files from being the ones replicated. I appreciate the way you teach, bringing the subject down to us and letting us know when we really should grab a textbook if we want to read up and understand the subject.

ELI thats superfantastic elaboration u r the top of the top IT giants

Eli. Can u please upload a video on IOPS and LUNS. Your explanation is easy to understand.

ELI you are seriously great , your classes are so informative. i request you to please make a class on HPE 3PAR

Thank you Sir. Easy to understand for a dutch guy like me.

You have a God Gifted Memory. Thanks God Bless You

Eli...I really enjoy and have gotten a great deal out of watching your videos. Thanks a million for teaching us and keep us informed. Are you planning to give a class on iSCSI any time soon?

Eli is the shit, I went from Military know nothing to IT at a major U on stuff from Eli (and a BS in ITM, and Certs, lol) BUT STILL!! High five Eli!!!

thanks bro, now it's a piece of cake 4me, building enterprise class san tommorow solo, regards from Poland Eli

What's hard to understand is why on earth does a guy like u have only 1 million subscribers.. u r jx fantastic

best channel on youtube!

Eli you are an absolute legend keep up the great work

you should be a teacher sir, i will be watching more of your videos since you summend up an online class that i had to do an assigment on which storage devices are better for 10,000 puls clients. thanks alot.

6:05 is the intro to SAN while 0:00 is for NAS intro.

Eli! Thanks for making me appear smart. You are the man.

Thank you. Working on the greenhouse system. Many devices making an SD card raid for san while greenhouse down for winter.

What is most important to understand is a SAN provides ‘device level’ mountable storage and NAS provides file storage.

Since its an intro I would probably also suggest research into converged networking and NFS for SAN access. Fiber is still decent but with some of the newer network protocols (look into Brocade) you can get multiples of 10 Gbps to your storage array(s).

Thanks a lot Eli for all the effort you put in these classes. I really appreciate your way for teaching and look forward for your next upload :) God bless !!!

Simply Awesome :). You make it sound and feel so easy / light. Enjoyed the learning.

why so many views and only 2k likes? This video deserves more.

that is some CRAZY idea this storage area network love your videos !!!

Thank you bro. Excellent explanation! This will prove very useful as I continue my ascent into the world of tech.

Greatly explained everything..!! You are gr8 Eli..

Great job eli, can I just point out in a standard virtual environment that when a Virtual Machine host fails the VMs that were on that host restart on a different host they don't magically continue running on a different host. There is an option in vmware called fault tolerance that runs 2 instances of the same VM on 2 different hosts at the same time, so if one of the hosts fails the VM on the other host takes over seamlessly without any downtime

Thanks for the video! The explanation was very helpful and easy to understand.

your way of teaching is awesome 😘😘

very nice tutorial. its like im facing you in the eye. no note taking and stuff. just pure straigh forward undertanding...

Eli thank you for teh introduction to NAS and SAN. Very interesting class

Eli, Thanks a lot for your efforts it is really appreciated. You are awesome.

Hell a lot of information in few minutes. Thanks Eli

Solid stuff!!! I really love your videos. I would also recommend to share some knowledge about Oracle and SQL products.

Wow, thanks for making me feel like a "big boy" as I work in a fiber optic environment with fabric interconnects.

Awesome Intro Eli.. this info will help me a lot in my job!

This is so helpful for low level tech support people talking to confused big wigs throwing around every smart\techy sounding word they know. Thank you!

I'm a noob and this video explained so much. Thanks..

You talking about a "NAS drive" (with it's own Os) or a server rack that has an array of RAID disks? SAN has been the most difficult concept to graph since a proper comparison has never been shown (practically) at different layers, and there is something called Vmware VSan too.

You wont find a better explanation than this on RU-vid.

I was still pretty lost until I found this video. Thanks for clearing this up for me!

I can see the point you're trying to make, but strictly speaking, SMB and CIFS don't allow you to copy and paste files, the operating system is responsible for that. You can however issue redirect requests which can eliminate the client system as middle man and have file servers transfer to each other. This isn't synonymous with the copy and paste function, however. Sorry for being a nurderer, this is really a good video.

You inspire me a lot. Thanks ELI

Hey Eli, great video. I saw you using Windows 8 and I also see a MAC monitor, that makes me curious to what operating systems you use and what you use them for. Do you use both Linux and MAC OS as well?