What Is A Storage Area Network: SAN Components: Requirements That Today's Storage Infrastructure Meets: Infrastructure Simplification
What Is A Storage Area Network: SAN Components: Requirements That Today's Storage Infrastructure Meets: Infrastructure Simplification
What Is A Storage Area Network: SAN Components: Requirements That Today's Storage Infrastructure Meets: Infrastructure Simplification
SAN components:
1) Storage
a) Disk systems
a.1) Just A Bunch Of Disks (JBOD)
b.2) iSCSI
b.3) FCIP
FCIP CONNECTION CREATION
b.4) iFCP
b.5) FICON
c) Higher level layers
c.1) Server-attached storage
Class 2
Class 3
datagram connectionless
Class 4
Class 5
Class 6
Class F
.
Topologies:
Point-to-point
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Arbitrated loop
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Switched fabric
fabric.
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Zoning
Fibre Channel over IP
iFCP
iSCSI
Benefits that can be realized by FCIP, iSCSI, iFCP are……..
Management principles
.
SAN management principles includes………
Management types
in-band management out-of-band management.
In-band management
Out-of-band management
.
Network level
Enterprise level
Storage Virtualization:
Virtualization Levels:
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Fabric level
Server level
Disk pooling
directly attached
Tape pooling
Data sharing
data sharing
Logical volume partitioning
File pooling
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