Storage Area Networks: Designing and Implementing a Mass Storage System
Storage Area Networks: Designing and Implementing a Mass Storage System
ISBN: 0130279595
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2000
Pages: 88
Pages: 88
Authors: Ralph H. Thornburgh, Barry J. Schoenborn
- 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
Storage Area Networks: Designing and Implementing a Mass Storage System
ISBN: 0130279595
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2000
Pages: 88
Pages: 88
Authors: Ralph H. Thornburgh, Barry J. Schoenborn
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