{"id":16728,"date":"2015-08-20T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3422149"},"modified":"2015-08-20T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T14:18:00","slug":"the-rise-and-fall-of-santap-cloudexpo-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-rise-and-fall-of-santap-cloudexpo-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise and Fall of SANTap | @CloudExpo #Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure how many people remember Cisco SANTap. About ten years ago, Cisco introduced a data tapping mechanism in the MDS 9000 fibre channel switches. The idea was to allow the data path to be \u201ctapped\u201d at-will. Tapping in this case meant using a mechanism in the switch to split the data being written from client hosts to the storage, allowing the identical \u201csplit\u201d data to be routed through a second, separate path.<br \/>\nSANTap therefore allowed a copy of the data to be seamlessly \u201cmirrored\u201d through the switch and subsequently used by other applications for multiple purposes (especially for backup). It facilitated real-time protection of critical data, and allowed advanced functions such as migration, snapshots, etc. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3422149\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure how many people remember Cisco SANTap. About ten years ago, Cisco introduced a data tapping mechanism in the MDS 9000 fibre channel switches. The idea was to allow the data path to be &ldquo;tapped&rdquo; at-will. Tapping in this case meant using a mechanism in the switch to split the data being written from client hosts to the storage, allowing the identical &ldquo;split&rdquo; data to be routed through a second, separate path.<br \/>\nSANTap therefore allowed a copy of the data to be seamlessly &ldquo;mirrored&rdquo; through the switch and subsequently used by other applications for multiple purposes (especially for backup). It facilitated real-time protection of critical data, and allowed advanced functions such as migration, snapshots, etc. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3422149\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16902,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16728\/revisions\/16902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}