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Designing Storage Area Networks: A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel and IP SANs, Second Edition
By Tom Clark
Publisher	: Addison Wesley
Date Published	: March 28, 2003
ISBN	: 0-321-13650-0
Pages	: 592
	Copyright
		Preface
			The Organization of This Book
		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
		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
		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
		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
		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
		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
		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
		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
		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
		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
		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
		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
		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
		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
		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
		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
		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
		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