Designing Storage Area Networks: A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel and IP SANs, Second Edition |
By Tom Clark |
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Publisher | : Addison Wesley |
Date Published | : March 28, 2003 |
ISBN | : 0-321-13650-0 |
Pages | : 592 |
| Copyright |
| | Preface |
| | | The Organization of This Book |
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| | Acknowledgments |
| | Chapter 1. Introduction |
| | | Section 1.1. Using the SNIA Shared Storage Model |
| | | Section 1.2. Example: Carlson Companies |
| | | Section 1.3. Text Overview |
| | | Section 1.4. Chapter Summary |
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| | Chapter 2. Storage and Networking Concepts |
| | | Section 2.1. Networking in front of the Server |
| | | Section 2.2. The SCSI Architecture |
| | | Section 2.3. The Parallel SCSI Bus |
| | | Section 2.4. Network-Attached Storage |
| | | Section 2.5. Networking behind the Server |
| | | Section 2.6. Chapter Summary |
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| | Chapter 3. Fibre Channel Internals |
| | | Section 3.1. Fibre Channel Layers |
| | | Section 3.2. 1Gbps and 2Gbps Transport |
| | | Section 3.3. Physical Layer Options |
| | | Section 3.4. Data Encoding |
| | | Section 3.5. Ordered Sets |
| | | Section 3.6. Framing Protocol |
| | | Section 3.7. Classes of Service |
| | | Section 3.8. Flow Control |
| | | Section 3.9. Naming and Addressing Conventions |
| | | Section 3.10. Chapter Summary |
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| | Chapter 4. Fibre Channel SAN Topologies |
| | | Section 4.1. Point-to-Point |
| | | Section 4.2. Arbitrated Loop |
| | | Section 4.3. Fabrics |
| | | Section 4.4. Building Extended Fabrics |
| | | Section 4.5. Fabrics and Loops |
| | | Section 4.6. Chapter Summary |
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| | Chapter 5. Fibre Channel Products |
| | | Section 5.1. Transceivers |
| | | Section 5.2. Host Bus Adapters |
| | | Section 5.3. Fibre Channel RAID |
| | | Section 5.4. Fibre Channel JBODs |
| | | Section 5.5. Arbitrated Loop Hubs |
| | | Section 5.6. Switching Hubs |
| | | Section 5.7. Fabric Switches |
| | | Section 5.8. Fibre Channel-to-SCSI Bridges |
| | | Section 5.9. Fibre Channel Extension Products |
| | | Section 5.10. Chapter Summary |
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| | Chapter 6. IP SAN Technology |
| | | Section 6.1. Ethernet and TCP/IP |
| | | Section 6.2. Native IP Storage Protocols |
| | | Section 6.3. Discovery in IP SANs |
| | | Section 6.4. Quality of Service for IP SANs |
| | | Section 6.5. Security for IP SANs |
| | | Section 6.6. Wide Area Storage Networking |
| | | Section 6.7. Chapter Summary |
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| | Chapter 7. IP SAN Products |
| | | Section 7.1. Gigabit Ethernet Switches |
| | | Section 7.2. IP Routers |
| | | Section 7.3. iSCSI Adapter Cards |
| | | Section 7.4. iSCSI Storage Devices |
| | | Section 7.5. IP Storage Gateways |
| | | Section 7.6. iSCSI-to-SCSI Bridges |
| | | Section 7.7. iSNS Servers |
| | | Section 7.8. Chapter Summary |
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| | Chapter 8. SAN Software Products |
| | | Section 8.1. Server Clustering |
| | | Section 8.2. Tape Backup |
| | | Section 8.3. Data Replication |
| | | Section 8.4. Distributed File Systems and File Sharing |
| | | Section 8.5. Chapter Summary |
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| | Chapter 9. Problem Isolation in SANs |
| | | Section 9.1. Simple Problem-Isolation Techniques |
| | | Section 9.2. Fibre Channel Analyzers |
| | | Section 9.3. iSCSI Network Analyzers |
| | | Section 9.4. Performance Tools |
| | | Section 9.5. Chapter Summary |
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| | Chapter 10. Management of SANs |
| | | Section 10.1. Storage Network Management |
| | | Section 10.2. Storage Resource Management |
| | | Section 10.3. Storage Management |
| | | Section 10.4. Integration of Storage, Systems, and Enterprise Management |
| | | Section 10.5. The Common Information Model (CIM) (Bluefin) |
| | | Section 10.6. Chapter Summary |
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| | Chapter 11. Storage Virtualization |
| | | Section 11.1. What Is Storage Virtualization? |
| | | Section 11.2. In-Band and Out-of-Band Virtualization |
| | | Section 11.3. Host-Based Storage Virtualization |
| | | Section 11.4. SAN Interconnect-Based Storage Virtualization |
| | | Section 11.5. Storage-Based Virtualization |
| | | Section 11.6. Multivendor Storage Virtualization |
| | | Section 11.7. File System and NAS Virtualization |
| | | Section 11.8. Tape Virtualization |
| | | Section 11.9. Virtualization and the Data Storage Utility |
| | | Section 11.10. Chapter Summary |
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| | Chapter 12. Application Studies |
| | | Section 12.1. Post-Production Video Editing |
| | | Section 12.2. Prepress Operations |
| | | Section 12.3. LAN-Free and Server-Free Tape Backup |
| | | Section 12.4. Server Clustering |
| | | Section 12.5. Storage Consolidation |
| | | Section 12.6. Internet Service Providers |
| | | Section 12.7. Campus Storage Networks |
| | | Section 12.8. Remote Tape Vaulting |
| | | Section 12.9. Disaster Recovery |
| | | Section 12.10. Chapter Summary |
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| | Chapter 13. SAN Issues |
| | | Section 13.1. Standardization |
| | | Section 13.2. Interoperability |
| | | Section 13.3. Management |
| | | Section 13.4. Convergence |
| | | Section 13.5. Chapter Summary |
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| | Chapter 14. The Future of SAN |
| | | Section 14.1. Integration of SANs into Mainstream Networking |
| | | Section 14.2. Ubiquity of Shared Storage |
| | | Section 14.3. Virtualization |
| | | Section 14.4. Human Factors |
| | | Section 14.5. Contributing Technologies |
| | | Section 14.6. Chapter Summary |
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| | Appendix A. SAN Resources |
| | | Section A.1. Standards and Proposals |
| | | Section A.2. Fibre Channel Technical and Marketing |
| | | Section A.3. IP Storage Technical and Marketing |
| | | Section A.4. Related Web Resources |
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| | Appendix B. SAN and Related Vendors |
| | | Section B.1. SAN System Vendors |
| | | Section B.2. SAN Storage and Tape Vendors |
| | | Section B.3. Fibre Channel Products |
| | | Section B.4. IP SAN Products |
| | | Section B.5. SAN Extension |
| | | Section B.6. SAN Management and Virtualization |
| | | Section B.7. Gigabit Ethernet Vendors |
| | | Section B.8. Test Equipment and Verification Labs |
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| | Appendix C. The Standardization Process |
| | Appendix D. The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) |
| | | Section D.1. Board of Directors |
| | | Section D.2. Executive Director and Staff |
| | | Section D.3. SNIA Technology Center |
| | | Section D.4. Customer Councils |
| | | Section D.5. Committees |
| | | Section D.6. Technical Workgroups |
| | | Section D.7. Industry Forums |
| | | Section D.8. SNIA and Other Industry Associations |
| | | Section D.9. Summary |
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| | 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 |
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| | 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 |
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| | Bibliography |