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Storage Area Networks: Designing and Implementing a Mass Storage System

ISBN: 0130279595
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2000
Pages: 88

Authors: Ralph H. Thornburgh, Barry J. Schoenborn

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• Starting Page
• Table of Content
• Front Matter
• List of Figures
• Foreword
• Preface
• What This Book Is About
• Who Should Read This Book
• How to Use This Book
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• RALPH THORNBURGH
• BARRY SCHOENBORN
• Chapter 1. The Storage Area Network
• 1.1 What Is a SAN?
• 1.2 Why Are SANs Needed?
• 1.3 The Signs of a SAN
• Chapter 2. A Brief History of Storage
• 2.1 How Did We Get to Networking Storage Anyway?
• 2.2 Tapes
• 2.3 Disks
• 2.4 Local Area Networks (LANs)
• 2.5 Network Attached Storage
• 2.6 Mass Storage
• 2.7 RAID
• 2.8 Storage Area Networks (SANs)
• Chapter 3. A Brief Review of Fibre Channel
• 3.1 Current Mass Storage Architectures
• 3.2 How Does Fibre Channel Help?
• 3.3 Advantages of Fibre Channel for Mass Storage
• 3.4 Fibre Channel Basics
• 3.5 Topologies
• 3.6 Fibre Channel Functional Levels and Protocols
• 3.7 Functional Levels
• 3.8 FC-0: The Physical Layer
• 3.9 FC-1: The Transmission Protocol Level
• 3.10 FC-2: Framing Protocol
• 3.11 FC-3: Common Services
• 3.12 FC-4: Mapping
• 3.13 Upper Level Protocols
• 3.14 Classes of Service
• 3.15 FC-AL Characteristics
• 3.16 Operation of the FC-AL
• 3.17 Hubs
• 3.18 Hub Topologies
• Chapter 4. The SAN in Detail
• 4.1 SAN Principles
• 4.2 SAN Terms and Building Blocks
• 4.3 SAN Topologies
• 4.4 Other SAN Considerations
• 4.5 Summary
• Chapter 5. Managing the SAN
• 5.1 Generic Requirements for SAN Management
• 5.2 Hewlett-Packard SAN Management Products
• Chapter 6. Backup and Restore
• 6.1 Why Do Backups?
• 6.2 SAN Demands on Backup
• 6.3 The Painful Rules of Backup
• 6.4 SAN Backup Media
• 6.5 SAN Backup Devices
• 6.6 SAN Backup Topologies
• Chapter 7. Industry Implementations
• 7.1 So Now We Have One
• 7.2 General SAN Implementations
• 7.3 Special SAN Implementations
• Chapter 8. HP SAN Hardware Products
• 8.1 Hewlett-Packards Fibre Channel Chips
• 8.2 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters
• 8.3 FC-AL Hubs
• 8.4 Disk Arrays
• 8.5 Tape Libraries
• 8.6 SureStore E SCSI FC-SCSI FC 42 Bridge
• 8.7 Fibre Channel Switches
• Chapter 9. An Interview with Duane Zitzner
• 9.1 Biography
• 9.2 Interview
• Chapter 10. Future Developments
• 10.1 What Drives Change?
• 10.2 SAN Technology Developments
• 10.3 Technology Changes Outside the SAN
• 10.4 New IT Applications
• 10.5 The IT SAN Management Professional
• 10.6 Future Applications
• 10.7 The Final Word
• Glossary
• Glossary
• Bibliography