Designing Storage Area Networks: A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel and IP SANs (2nd Edition)
Designing Storage Area Networks: A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel and IP SANs (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 0321136500
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 171
Pages: 171
Authors: Tom Clark
- 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
Designing Storage Area Networks: A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel and IP SANs (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 0321136500
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 171
Pages: 171
Authors: Tom Clark