Storage Area Networks: Designing and Implementing a Mass Storage System

Storage Area Networks: Designing and Implementing a Mass Storage System

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

1. The Storage Area Network

     1.1 What Is a SAN?

     1.2 Why Are SANs Needed?

     1.3 The Signs of a SAN

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)

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

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

5. Managing the SAN

     5.1 Generic Requirements for SAN Management

     5.2 Hewlett-Packard SAN Management Products

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

7. Industry Implementations

     7.1 So Now We Have One; What Do We Do with It?

     7.2 General SAN Implementations

     7.3 Special SAN Implementations

8. HP SAN Hardware Products

     8.1 Hewlett-Packard s 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 4/2 Bridge

     8.7 Fibre Channel Switches

9. An Interview with Duane Zitzner

     9.1 Biography

     9.2 Interview

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

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