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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Using the SNIA Shared Storage Model | |
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| Example: Carlson Companies | |
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| Text Overview | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Storage and Networking Concepts | |
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| Networking in front of the Server | |
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| Serial Transport | |
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| Access Method | |
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| Addressing | |
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| Packetizing of Data | |
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| Routing of Packets | |
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| Upper-Layer Protocol Support | |
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| The SCSI Architecture | |
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| The Parallel SCSI Bus | |
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| Network-Attached Storage | |
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| Networking behind the Server | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Fibre Channel Internals | |
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| Fibre Channel Layers | |
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| 1Gbps and 2Gbps Transport | |
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| Physical Layer Options | |
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| Data Encoding | |
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| Ordered Sets | |
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| Framing Protocol | |
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| Classes of Service | |
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| Flow Control | |
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| Naming and Addressing Conventions | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Fibre Channel SAN Topologies | |
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| Point-to-Point | |
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| Arbitrated Loop | |
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| Loop Physical Topology | |
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| Loop Addressing | |
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| Loop Initialization | |
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| Port Login | |
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| Loop Port State Machine | |
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| Arbitration | |
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| The Nonbroadcast Nature of Arbitrated Loop | |
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| Design Considerations for Arbitrated Loop | |
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| Fabrics | |
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| Fabric Login | |
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| Simple Name Server | |
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| State Change Notification | |
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| Private Loop Support | |
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| Fabric Zoning | |
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| Building Extended Fabrics | |
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| E_Port Standardization | |
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| Principal Switch Selection | |
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| Fabrics and Loops | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Fibre Channel Products | |
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| Transceivers | |
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| Host Bus Adapters | |
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| Fibre Channel RAID | |
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| Fibre Channel JBODs | |
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| Arbitrated Loop Hubs | |
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| Star Topology for Arbitrated Loop | |
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| Hub Architecture | |
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| Unmanaged Hubs | |
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| Managed Hubs | |
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| Switching Hubs | |
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| Fabric Switches | |
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| Departmental Fabric Switches | |
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| Fibre Channel Directors | |
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| Fibre Channel-to-SCSI Bridges | |
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| Fibre Channel Extension Products | |
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| Fibre Channel Extension Using DWDM | |
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| Fibre Channel Extension Using IP Tunneling | |
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| Fibre Channel WAN Bridging | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| IP SAN Technology | |
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| Ethernet and TCP/IP | |
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| Gigabit Ethernet Transport | |
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| TCP/IP | |
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| Native IP Storage Protocols | |
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| Internet Fibre Channel Protocol | |
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| Internet SCSI (iSCSI) | |
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| Discovery in IP SANs | |
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| Service Locator Protocol (SLP) | |
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| Internet Storage Name Server (iSNS) | |
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| Quality of Service for IP SANs | |
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| Security for IP SANs | |
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| Wide Area Storage Networking | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| IP SAN Products | |
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| Gigabit Ethernet Switches | |
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| IP Routers | |
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| iSCSI Adapter Cards | |
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| iSCSI Storage Devices | |
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| IP Storage Gateways | |
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| iSCSI-to-SCSI Bridges | |
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| iSNS Servers | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| SAN Software Products | |
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| Server Clustering | |
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| Tape Backup | |
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| Data Replication | |
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| Distributed File Systems and File Sharing | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Problem Isolation in SANs | |
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| Simple Problem-Isolation Techniques | |
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| Fibre Channel Analyzers | |
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| iSCSI Network Analyzers | |
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| Performance Tools | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Management of SANs | |
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| Storage Network Management | |
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| In-Band Management | |
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| Out-of-Band Management | |
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| SNMP | |
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| HTTP | |
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| Telnet | |
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| Storage Network Management Issues | |
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| Storage Resource Management | |
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| Storage Management | |
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| Integration of Storage, Systems, and Enterprise Management | |
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| Common Information Model (CIM) (Bluefin) | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Storage Virtualization | |
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| What Is Storage Virtualization? | |
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| In-Band and Out-of-Band Virtualization | |
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| Host-Based Storage Virtualization | |
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| SAN Interconnect-Based Storage Virtualization | |
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| Storage-Based Virtualization | |
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| Multivendor Storage Virtualization | |
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| File System and NAS Virtualization | |
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| Tape Virtualization | |
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| Virtualization and the Data Storage Utility | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Application Studies | |
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| Post-Production Video Editing | |
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| Prepress Operations | |
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| LAN-Free and Server-Free Tape Backup | |
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| Server Clustering | |
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| Storage Consolidation | |
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| Internet Service Providers | |
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| Campus Storage Networks | |
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| Remote Tape Vaulting | |
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| Disaster Recovery | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| SAN Issues | |
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| Standardization | |
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| Interoperability | |
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| Management | |
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| Convergence | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| The Future of SAN | |
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| Integration of SANs into Mainstream Networking | |
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| Ubiquity of Shared Storage | |
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| Virtualization | |
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| Human Factors | |
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| Contributing Technologies | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| SAN Resources | |
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| Standards and Proposals | |
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| SCSI and Fibre Channel Standards | |
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| IETF Requests for Comments | |
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| IETF IP Storage Internet Drafts | |
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| Gigabit Ethernet | |
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| InfiniBand | |
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| Fibre Channel Technical and Marketing | |
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| IP Storage Technical and Marketing | |
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| Related Web Resources | |
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| SAN and Related Vendors | |
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| SAN System Vendors | |
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| SAN Storage and Tape Vendors | |
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| Fibre Channel Products | |
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| IP SAN Products | |
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| SAN Extension | |
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| SAN Management and Virtualization | |
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| Gigabit Ethernet Vendors | |
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| Test Equipment and Verification Labs | |
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| The Standardization Process | |
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| The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) | |
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| Board of Directors | |
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| Executive Director and Staff | |
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| Board Advisors | |
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| Technical Council | |
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| Technical Director | |
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| Technical Center Director | |
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| SNIA Technology Center | |
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| Customer Councils | |
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| Committees | |
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| Technical Workgroups | |
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| Industry Forums | |
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| SNIA IP Storage Industry Forum | |
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| SNIA Supported Solutions Forum | |
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| SNIA DAFS Forum | |
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| SNIA Storage Security Industry Forum | |
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| SNIA Europe Forum | |
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| SNIA Japan Forum | |
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| SNIA and Other Industry Associations | |
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| Summary | |
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| The SNIA Shared Storage Model | |
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| Revision history | |
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| Usage terms | |
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| Executive summary | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The shared storage vision | |
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| Why shared storage? | |
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| The potential | |
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| Why a model for shared storage? | |
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| Benefits of the model | |
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| A note on the graphical conventions used in the model | |
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| The SNIA Shared Storage Model | |
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| Storage system components | |
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| The layering scheme of the SNIA Shared Storage Model | |
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| The file/record layer | |
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| Where can it be done? | |
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| The block layer | |
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| Putting it all together--combining the block & file/record layers | |
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| The services subsystem | |
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| Additional topics | |
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| Clustering | |
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| Data versus storage | |
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| Sharing of resources and data | |
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| Modular systems | |
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| Storage networks | |
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| Some common storage architectures | |
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| Direct-attached block storage | |
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| Storage network-attached block storage (aka "SAN") | |
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| Block storage aggregation in a storage network ("SAN applicance") | |
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| Storage network-attached block storage with metadata server ("asymmetric block service") | |
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| Multi-site block storage | |
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| File server controller ("NAS head") | |
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| NAS/file server metadata manager ("asymmetric file service") | |
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| Object-based Storage Device (OSD), CMU NASD | |
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| Summary and conclusions | |
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| Status | |
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| The SNIA Dictionary of Storage Networking Terminology | |
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| SAN Essays | |
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| SAN Customers and SAN Vendors | |
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| Standardization and Storage Networking Technologies | |
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| Standards Compliance versus Interoperability | |
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| Storage Resource Management | |
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| Going the Distance with Storage Data | |
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| Shared Storage for the Masses | |
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| SAN Security | |
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| Infrastructures and Applications | |
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| Disaster Recovery in an Uncertain World | |
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| Enabling iSCSI Migration | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |