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Designing Storage Area Networks: A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel and IP SANs (2nd Edition)

ISBN: 0321136500
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2003
Pages: 171

Authors: Tom Clark

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• Main Page
• Table of content
• Copyright
• Preface
• The Organization of This Book
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• 1.1 Using the SNIA Shared Storage Model
• 1.2 Example: Carlson Companies
• 1.3 Text Overview
• 1.4 Chapter Summary
• Chapter 2. Storage and Networking Concepts
• 2.1 Networking in front of the Server
• 2.2 The SCSI Architecture
• 2.3 The Parallel SCSI Bus
• 2.4 Network-Attached Storage
• 2.5 Networking behind the Server
• 2.6 Chapter Summary
• Chapter 3. Fibre Channel Internals
• 3.1 Fibre Channel Layers
• 3.2 1Gbps and 2Gbps Transport
• 3.3 Physical Layer Options
• 3.4 Data Encoding
• 3.5 Ordered Sets
• 3.6 Framing Protocol
• 3.7 Classes of Service
• 3.8 Flow Control
• 3.9 Naming and Addressing Conventions
• 3.10 Chapter Summary
• Chapter 4. Fibre Channel SAN Topologies
• 4.1 Point-to-Point
• 4.2 Arbitrated Loop
• 4.3 Fabrics
• 4.4 Building Extended Fabrics
• 4.5 Fabrics and Loops
• 4.6 Chapter Summary
• Chapter 5. Fibre Channel Products
• 5.1 Transceivers
• 5.2 Host Bus Adapters
• 5.3 Fibre Channel RAID
• 5.4 Fibre Channel JBODs
• 5.5 Arbitrated Loop Hubs
• 5.6 Switching Hubs
• 5.7 Fabric Switches
• 5.8 Fibre Channel-to-SCSI Bridges
• 5.9 Fibre Channel Extension Products
• 5.10 Chapter Summary
• Chapter 6. IP SAN Technology
• 6.1 Ethernet and TCPIP
• 6.2 Native IP Storage Protocols
• 6.3 Discovery in IP SANs
• 6.4 Quality of Service for IP SANs
• 6.5 Security for IP SANs
• 6.6 Wide Area Storage Networking
• 6.7 Chapter Summary
• Chapter 7. IP SAN Products
• 7.1 Gigabit Ethernet Switches
• 7.2 IP Routers
• 7.3 iSCSI Adapter Cards
• 7.4 iSCSI Storage Devices
• 7.5 IP Storage Gateways
• 7.6 iSCSI-to-SCSI Bridges
• 7.7 iSNS Servers
• 7.8 Chapter Summary
• Chapter 8. SAN Software Products
• 8.1 Server Clustering
• 8.2 Tape Backup
• 8.3 Data Replication
• 8.4 Distributed File Systems and File Sharing
• 8.5 Chapter Summary
• Chapter 9. Problem Isolation in SANs
• 9.1 Simple Problem-Isolation Techniques
• 9.2 Fibre Channel Analyzers
• 9.3 iSCSI Network Analyzers
• 9.4 Performance Tools
• 9.5 Chapter Summary
• Chapter 10. Management of SANs
• 10.1 Storage Network Management
• 10.2 Storage Resource Management
• 10.3 Storage Management
• 10.4 Integration of Storage, Systems, and Enterprise Management
• 10.5 The Common Information Model (CIM) (Bluefin)
• 10.6 Chapter Summary
• Chapter 11. Storage Virtualization
• 11.1 What Is Storage Virtualization?
• 11.2 In-Band and Out-of-Band Virtualization
• 11.3 Host-Based Storage Virtualization
• 11.4 SAN Interconnect-Based Storage Virtualization
• 11.5 Storage-Based Virtualization
• 11.6 Multivendor Storage Virtualization
• 11.7 File System and NAS Virtualization
• 11.8 Tape Virtualization
• 11.9 Virtualization and the Data Storage Utility
• 11.10 Chapter Summary
• Chapter 12. Application Studies
• 12.1 Post-Production Video Editing
• 12.2 Prepress Operations
• 12.3 LAN-Free and Server-Free Tape Backup
• 12.4 Server Clustering
• 12.5 Storage Consolidation
• 12.6 Internet Service Providers
• 12.7 Campus Storage Networks
• 12.8 Remote Tape Vaulting
• 12.9 Disaster Recovery
• 12.10 Chapter Summary
• Chapter 13. SAN Issues
• 13.1 Standardization
• 13.2 Interoperability
• 13.3 Management
• 13.4 Convergence
• 13.5 Chapter Summary
• Chapter 14. The Future of SAN
• 14.1 Integration of SANs into Mainstream Networking
• 14.2 Ubiquity of Shared Storage
• 14.3 Virtualization
• 14.4 Human Factors
• 14.5 Contributing Technologies
• 14.6 Chapter Summary
• Appendix A. SAN Resources
• A.1 Standards and Proposals
• A.2 Fibre Channel Technical and Marketing
• A.3 IP Storage Technical and Marketing
• A.4 Related Web Resources
• Appendix B. SAN and Related Vendors
• B.1 SAN System Vendors
• B.2 SAN Storage and Tape Vendors
• B.3 Fibre Channel Products
• B.4 IP SAN Products
• B.5 SAN Extension
• B.6 SAN Management and Virtualization
• B.7 Gigabit Ethernet Vendors
• B.8 Test Equipment and Verification Labs
• Appendix C. The Standardization Process
• Appendix D. The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)
• D.1 Board of Directors
• D.2 Executive Director and Staff
• D.3 SNIA Technology Center
• D.4 Customer Councils
• D.5 Committees
• D.6 Technical Workgroups
• D.7 Industry Forums
• D.8 SNIA and Other Industry Associations
• D.9 Summary
• Appendix E. The SNIA Shared Storage Model
• Revision history
• Usage terms
• Executive summary
• Acknowledgments
• The shared storage vision
• Why a model for shared storage?
• The SNIA Shared Storage Model
• Where can it be done?
• The services subsystem
• Additional topics
• Some common storage architectures
• Block storage aggregation in a storage network ( SAN appliance )
• Summary and conclusions
• Appendix F. The SNIA Dictionary of Storage Networking Terminology
• Appendix G. SAN Essays
• SAN Customers and SAN Vendors
• Standardization and Storage Networking Technologies
• Standards Compliance versus Interoperability
• Storage Resource Management
• Going the Distance with Storage Data
• Shared Storage for the Masses
• SAN Security
• Infrastructures and Applications
• Disaster Recovery in an Uncertain World
• Enabling iSCSI Migration
• Bibliography