C
cache
buses, 99100
controller, 99100
disk, 78
hard disk controller, 70
host adapter, 70
L1/L2, 69
NAS devices, 148
system, 78, 68
See also buffers; memory
capacity planning, 401419
benchmarks, 414417
box level, 277278
capacity requirements, 404407, 414417
collecting storage information, 410414
described, 276, 491
established service levels, 406407
external capacity driver, 406
implementation of plan, 417419
I/O workload estimates, 405406
modeling tools, 414415
new storage networks, 408409
overview, 277278, 402404
production installation, 418419
quota management, 409
reporting mechanisms, 406
storage analysis, 407414
storage provisioning, 404407
test installations, 418
volume managers, 410411
workloads and, 277278
cascading configurations, 250, 259, 294295, 310311
case studies
import auto industry, 465476
International Image Processing Company, 453464
Southwestern CD Company, 477488
central processing unit (CPU)
CISC vs. RISC, 146148
data storage and, 6669
described, 492
Cfp (complex file processing) mode, 153, 155, 173
change management, 354, 392400
CIFS (Common Internet File System)
data organization and, 122124
described, 443444, 492
evolution of, 42
security and, 443444
CIM (common information model), 412413
CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computing), 146148
client/server environment, 1819, 40
client/server storage
database servers and, 1112
limitations, 1516
overview, 1015
vs. storage networking, 1820
common information model (CIM), 412413
Common Internet File System. See CIFS
Common Transport (CT) authentication, 430
complex file processing (Cfp) mode, 153, 155, 173
Complex Instruction Set Computing (CISC), 146148
computer systems
client computers, 152
performance of, 355
processing, 5153
See also specific systems
configurations
cascading, 250, 259, 294295, 310311
core /edge, 256257, 297298, 303
data warehouse workloads, 310311
errors, 429430, 446447
HBA, 225226
iSCSI, 342344
ISP, 1415
JBOD, 227229
management, 248, 354
mesh, 256, 258, 296, 306307
NAS. See NAS configurations
near-line storage, 7476
OLTP, 76, 302303
RAID, 228229, 241, 376377
SAN. See SAN configurations
security and, 446447
web-based workloads, 306307
connectionless flow mechanism, 232233
connectivity
buses. See buses
devices, 7980
direct vs. network server connections, 16
Ethernet, 3132, 102, 135
Fibre Channel, 105109
frame, 232233
fundamentals of, 95113
high-speed Internet topologies, 111113
motherboard, 99
NAS. See NAS connectivity
NAS devices, 176188
networks, NAS, 138139, 180184, 186187
networks, SAN, 262264
parallel, 100101
peripheral-to-server, 111113
remote, 448449
SAN. See SAN connectivity
SAN devices, 264267
security and, 448449
serial, 100101, 111
console boot process, 247
controller cache, 70, 99100
controllers
adapters, 8384
described, 492
device, 8384
functions, 78, 83
overview, 8384
PCI, 103
SCSI, 104105
tape, 9091
core/edge configurations, 256257, 297298, 303
CPU (central processing unit)
CISC vs. RISC, 146148
data storage and, 6669
described, 492
cross-talk interference, 101
CT (Common Transport) authentication, 430