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| Essential Guide to Storage Area Networks | |
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| SANs Fundamentals | |
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| But What is a SANReally? Network Attached Storage (NAS) | |
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| SAN Attached Storage (SAS) | |
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| SAN Interfaces | |
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| SAN Interconnects | |
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| SAN Fabrics | |
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| Building a SAN | |
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| Why Are SANs Important? SAN Applications | |
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| Types of SAN Operating Systems Software and Hardware Components | |
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| Sharing Data in a SAN | |
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| The Case for SAN Hardware | |
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| SAN Market Demand and Projections by Region and Country | |
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| Evolution of the SAN Market | |
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| The Value of Information | |
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| The Business Information Landscape Today | |
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| Preparing for Storage Area Networking | |
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| The Challenge of Implementing SAN Technology | |
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| The Storage Networking Management Vision | |
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| From Here | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Types of SAN Technology | |
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| FC-AL: A First Step | |
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| SAN Setbacks | |
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| Technology and Configuration | |
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| High Scalability and Flexibility | |
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| Web Service Scaling Factors | |
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| Current Web Server Practice | |
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| Storage in the Web Server Plant | |
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| Revisiting the SAN | |
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| SANs for Web Servers: A Scalable Alternative | |
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| Technology Platform, Techniques, and Alternatives | |
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| How the GTA Did It | |
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| Scenarios | |
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| Other Scenarios | |
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| Breaking Tradition in Video Distribution | |
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| Purely Analog Video | |
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| The Introduction of Digital to Video | |
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| The Video Creation and Manipulation Workstation | |
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| A Faster Network | |
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| Push versus Pull | |
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| SANs in Video | |
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| SAP R/3 Storage Management | |
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| Environment Setup | |
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| Split Mirror Backup | |
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| Split Mirror Backup Process | |
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| Process Automation | |
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| Suspension of Application Writes | |
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| Recovery | |
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| From Here | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Standards | |
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| Like Ethernet, SANs Standards Are Evolving | |
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| A Phased Approach | |
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| Getting to the Third Phase | |
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| Other Players | |
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| The Future of SAN Standards | |
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| From Here | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Types of Vendor and SANs Service Providers | |
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| SAN Self-Service | |
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| The Interoperability Labs | |
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| The Turnkey Solution | |
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| Service Provider Outsourcing | |
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| Multiple Computer Platforms High-Speed Data Sharing | |
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| Deficiency of LAN Solutions | |
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| The SAN Revolution | |
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| True SAN-Based Data Sharing | |
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| The Future Is Sharing | |
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| Indirect Channel Opportunity | |
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| The Changing Role of the Channel | |
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| Drivers of Storage Market Growth | |
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| Identifying and Creating Opportunities in the SAN Market | |
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| Storage Suppliers Respond to Growing Customer Demand | |
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| Sharing Information | |
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| SANs Are Not a New Technology | |
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| Translating SANs into Opportunity for Partners | |
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| Business Value of SAN | |
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| Overcoming Users'' Concerns about SANs | |
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| What SANs Mean to the Channel: Road Map for Exploiting SAN Opportunities | |
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| Building Up to SAN | |
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| Choosing a SAN Supplier | |
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| IBM Business Partners: Opportunities in Storage Area NetworksThe Sum is Greater than the Whole | |
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| Multivendor Enterprise Storage Area Networks End-to-End Services | |
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| Storage Management Challenges | |
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| Networked Storage: The New Paradigm | |
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| Implementation Challenges | |
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| A Service-Driven SAN Strategy, from IBM | |
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| Storage Subsystems for Video Services | |
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| Related Work | |
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| Overview | |
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| Storage Server Requirements | |
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| Storage Subsystem Requirements | |
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| User and Storage Area Network Requirements | |
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| Software Requirements | |
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| The Basic Server Configuration | |
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| The Disk Subsystem | |
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| The Video Storage Server | |
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| Server Memory Requirements | |
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| Server Processing Requirements | |
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| Multiple Server Configurations | |
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| The Server Interconnect Problem: A Case for Fibre Channel | |
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| Is There an SSP in Your Future? From Here | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Providing SAN Scalability and High Availability | |
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| The Increased Need for Higher Availability | |
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| High-Level Availability Objectives | |
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| System Availability through Redundancy | |
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| Applications | |
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| Servers and Host Bus Adapters | |
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| Storage | |
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| Mirroring | |
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| Switches | |
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| Networking in the Fabric | |
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| Meshed Tree Topology for Switches | |
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| A Single Fabric with Dual Connectivity | |
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| A Dual Fabric with Dual Connectivity | |
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| Reliability Calculations for Single and Dual Fabrics | |
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| Zoning | |
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| Fabric Management | |
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| The Key to High Availability | |
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| From Here | |
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| End Notes | |
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| SAN Design Issues | |
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| Fibre Channel Topologies | |
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| Customer Selection of Fibre Channel Products | |
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| Designing Storage Networks | |
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| Application Requirements | |
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| Protocol Support | |
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| Cable Plant | |
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| Distance between Devices | |
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| Number of Devices | |
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| Accommodation of Legacy Devices | |
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| Anticipated Growth | |
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| Traffic Volumes | |
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| Departmental Segmentation | |
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| Redundancy | |
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| Disaster Recovery | |
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| SNMP Management | |
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| Cost/Performance Ratio | |
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| Design It and They Will Come | |
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| SAN Story | |
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| End-User Education | |
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| SAN-to-SAN Connectivity | |
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| Cost Considerations | |
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| SAN Software | |
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| OEM Involvement | |
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| From Here | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Cost Justification and Consideration | |
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| Financial Impact of a SAN | |
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| Capital Savings | |
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| Backup Savings | |
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| Data Management | |
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| Justification of SAN Operating Costs | |
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| Financial Considerations and Acquisitions | |
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| Mission-Critical | |
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| The Middle Road | |
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| The Value Approach | |
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| Final Decision | |
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| Acquisitions | |
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| From Here | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Standards Design Issues | |
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| Designing Distributed SAN Standards | |
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| Driving Forces behind Infiniband Technology Adoption | |
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| Revolutionizing Internet Data Centers | |
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| SAN Standard Design Implications | |
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| IDC View of Infiniband | |
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| Postscript | |
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| New Storage Standards Design Issues | |
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| IP Debate Heating Up | |
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| Industry Unity over Standards? Customer Considerations | |
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| No Winning Protocol Likely | |
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| From Here | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Architectural Design Considerations | |
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| Traditional Captive Storage Architecture | |
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| SAN Architecture | |
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| Interface Comparison | |
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| SAN''s Shared Storage versus Traditional Captive Storage | |
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| Availability/Reliability | |
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| Performance | |
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| Configuration Flexibility | |
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| Cost | |
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| From Here | |
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| End Note | |
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| Implementation of Plan Development | |
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| Scalability | |
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| How Available Is It? Security Issues | |
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| How Easy Is Management? Minimizing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) | |
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| Thinking Strategically | |
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| Disaster Recovery Plan | |
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| Data Explosion | |
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| Platform Proliferation | |
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| Restoration is the Issue | |
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| Mirror, Mirror | |
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| No Panaceas | |
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| How to Make SANs a Reality in Your Environment with Your Infrastructure | |
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| Internet-Based Water Exchange Pours Resources into a SAN Infrastructure | |
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| Preparing for a SAN | |
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| Making the Decision for a SAN? Planning and Designing a SAN | |
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| Getting Help | |
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| Going Live with a SAN | |
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| From Here | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Virtual Storage Area Networks Planning Techniques: Making the Web Mission-Critical | |
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| No Standards Yet | |
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| SAN Clustering Technologies | |
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| Traditional IP Clustering and SANs | |
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| Storage Clusters | |
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| The Global File System | |
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| Shared GFS Root File Systems | |
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| Storage Clusters and Centralized Storage | |
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| SAN Virtualization Architectural Planning Guidelines | |
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| Virtualization Schemes | |
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| Selection Criteria | |
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| Back to the Choices | |
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| Ensuring that Your Storage Virtualization Doors are Never Closed | |
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| What is True Storage Virtualization? The Ability to Stripe across and Utilize All Available Space | |
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| The Ability to Centrally Manage and Share Storage | |
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| Nonvirtualized versus Virtualized Storage in the Real World | |
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| Nonvirtualized Storage and True Storage Virtualization | |
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| A Better Solution: True Storage Virtualization | |
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| From Here | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Testing Techniques | |
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| Physical Layer Testing | |
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| Application Layer Testing | |
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| Management Layer Testing | |
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| Why Use SAN Testing? SANmark Revision "A" Test Suite | |
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| The Role of the SANmark Revision "A" Test | |
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| Other Testing Technology | |
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| From Here | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Installation and Deployment | |
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| Look to Your Applications | |
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| Prepare for the Future | |
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| How to Deploy a SAN | |
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| Expanding Storage the SAN Way | |
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| A Packaged Solution | |
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| Using HSM Technology | |
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| Getting Started on SAN | |
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| Start with Hubs | |
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| Link Hubs to a Fibre Channel Switch | |