index_C

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 management, 354

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

CD media, 267

CD-ROMs, 94, 491

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

channels, 260

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 computers, 152

client/server environment, 1819, 40

client/server storage

database servers and, 1112

limitations, 1516

overview, 1015

vs. storage networking, 1820

clock speed, 97

clock, system, 145

clustering, 267269

clusters, 120, 491492

common information model (CIM), 412413

Common Internet File System. See CIFS

Common Transport (CT) authentication, 430

compilers, 126

complex file processing (Cfp) mode, 153, 155, 173

Complex Instruction Set Computing (CISC), 146148

compression, 493, 499

computer systems

client computers, 152

performance of, 355

processing, 5153

See also specific systems

concentrators , 178

concurrent factor, 302

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 access, 247

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

CPU registers, 68

cross-talk interference, 101

CT (Common Transport) authentication, 430

cylinders , 492