Practical storage knowledge, with the decisions explained.
Hrishikesh Naik
Storage Admin Hub is created and maintained by Hrishikesh Naik, a storage and cloud professional with more than 15 years of experience across enterprise storage and infrastructure. His areas of work include NetApp ONTAP, Dell EMC storage, Linux, Ceph and cloud storage.
The purpose of this site is to help administrators connect storage concepts with the daily decisions behind configuration, troubleshooting and recovery. A command matters most when you understand its prerequisites, the identity of the object it changes, and the evidence that confirms the result.
Who the guides are for
Administrators building a lab can follow the NAS and SAN examples. Operators handling incidents can use the evidence and decision tables. Interview candidates can use the question sets to explain both a concept and a practical investigation. The cloud migration and automation sections build on that foundation.
The site covers NetApp configuration, hardware installation planning, NFS and SMB, Fibre Channel and iSCSI, Snapshot and SnapMirror protection, DR, Vscan, FPolicy and scripts. Brocade Fabric OS and Cisco MDS SAN guides cover switch setup, zoning, fabric links, upgrades, troubleshooting and interview scenarios. Platform-specific installation and recovery checklists point you to the matching vendor procedure.
Examples and authorship
Examples use fictional names and documentation addresses. Numerical scenarios and sample API output are teaching examples, not records of a customer incident or captured lab validation. Commands have not been executed on a live storage system or SAN switch for this publication. Choose the matching release and rehearse changes in your own approved lab.
AI tools assist with drafting and organizing some material. Author credit identifies the site creator and publisher. Official vendor documentation remains the reference for support, compatibility and command syntax. Read how the guides are prepared and maintained.
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