Book description
In this IBM Redbooks publication, we visit some of the core components and technologies that underpin a storage area network (SAN). We cover some of the latest additions to the IBM SAN portfolio, discuss general SAN design considerations, and build these considerations into a selection of real-world case studies.
We realize that there are many ways to design a SAN and put all the components together. In our examples, we have incorporated the major considerations that you need to think about, but still left room to maneuver on the SAN field of play.
This book focuses on the SAN products that are generally considered to form the backbone of the SAN fabric today: switches and directors. With this backbone, development has prompted discrete approaches to the design of a SAN fabric. The bespoke vendor implementation of technology that is characteristic in the design footprint of switches and directors means that we have an opportunity to answer challenges in different ways.
We will show examples where strength can be built into the SAN using the network and the features of the components themselves. Our aim is to show that you can customize your SAN fabric according to your preferences.
Table of contents
- Figures (1/2)
- Figures (2/2)
- Notices
- Preface
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Chapter 1: Introduction
- Beyond disaster recovery
- Using a SAN for business continuance
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SAN business benefits
- Storage consolidation and sharing of resources
- Data sharing
- Nondisruptive scalability for growth
- Improved backup and recovery
- High performance
- High availability server clustering
- Improved disaster tolerance
- Allow selection of best of breed storage
- Ease of data migration
- Reduced total costs of ownership
- Storage resources match e-business enterprise needs
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Chapter 2: SAN fabric components
- Fibre Channel technology sub-components
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Fibre Channel interconnects
- Fibre Channel transmission rates
- Small Form Factor Pluggable Module
- Gigabit Interface Converters
- Gigabit Link Modules
- Media Interface Adapters
- 1x9 transceivers
- Fibre Channel adapter cable
- Host Bus Adapters
- Loop Switches
- Switches
- Directors
- Fibre Channel routers
- Switch, director and router features
- Test equipment
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Chapter 3: SAN features
- Fabric implementation
- Classes of service
- Buffers
- Addressing
- Fabric services
- Logins
- Path routing mechanisms
- Zoning
- Trunking
- Ordered set, frames, sequences, and exchanges
- Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL)
- Factors and considerations
- Standards
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SAN industry associations and organizations
- Storage Networking Industry Association
- Fibre Channel Industry Association
- SCSI Trade Association
- International Committee for Information Technology Standards
- INCITS technical committee T11
- Information Storage Industry Consortium
- Internet Engineering Task Force
- American National Standards Institute
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Distributed Management Task Force
- List of evolved Fibre Channel standards
- SAN software management standards
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Standards-based management initiatives
- The Storage Management Initiative
- Open storage management with CIM
- CIM Object Manager
- Simple Network Management Protocol
- Application Program Interface
- In-band management
- Out-of-band management
- Service Location Protocol
- Tivoli Common Agent Services
- Managment of growing SANs
- Application management
- Data management
- Resource management
- Network management
- Device Management
- Fabric management methods
- Common access methods
- The SNIA Shared Storage Model
- Long distance links
- Backup windows
- Restore and disaster recovery time
- IBM Eserver zSeries and S/390
- Security
- Security mechanisms
- Best practices
- Virtualization
- Solutions
- Emerging technologies
- iSCSI
- iFCP
- FCIP
- Chapter 4: SAN disciplines
- Chapter 5: Host Bus Adapters
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Chapter 6: SAN design considerations
- What do you want to achieve with a SAN?
- Existing resources needs and planned growth
- Select the core design for your environment
- Host connectivity and Host Bus Adapters
- Director class or switch technology (1/4)
- Director class or switch technology (2/4)
- Director class or switch technology (3/4)
- Director class or switch technology (4/4)
- General considerations
- Interoperability issues in the design
- Pilot and test the design
- Chapter 7: IBM TotalStorage SAN Switch L10
- Chapter 8: IBM TotalStorage SAN b-type family
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Chapter 9: IBM TotalStorage SAN m-type family
- IBM SAN components
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Product description
- Machine type and model number changes
- IBM TotalStorage SAN12M-1 Fabric Switch
- IBM TotalStorage SAN16M-2 Fabric Switch
- IBM TotalStorage SAN24M-1 Fabric Switch
- IBM TotalStorage SAN32M-1 Fabric Switch
- IBM TotalStorage SAN32M-2 Fabric Switch
- IBM TotalStorage SAN140M Director (1/2)
- IBM TotalStorage SAN140M Director (2/2)
- IBM TotalStorage SAN256M director (1/2)
- IBM TotalStorage SAN256M director (2/2)
- IBM TotalStorage SAN04M-R
- IBM TotalStorage SAN16M-R
- IBM eServer BladeCenter switch module
- IBM TotalStorage SANC40M
- Fabric planning
- Features of directors and switches
- FICON support
- Fabric management
- Zoning
- Performance
- Security
- Licensing
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Chapter 10: Cisco switches and directors
- Product description
- MDS 9000 family features
- Supervisor module
- MDS 9000 SAN-OS 2.1
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Fabric management
- Cisco MDS 9000 Fabric Manager
- In-band management and out-of-band management
- Using the setup routine
- Controlling administrator access with users and roles
- Accessing Cisco Fabric Manager
- Connecting to a supervisor module
- Licensed feature packages
- PortChanneling
- Virtual SAN (VSAN) (1/2)
- Virtual SAN (VSAN) (2/2)
- Trunking
- Quality of Service (QoS)
- Fibre Channel Congestion Control (FCC)
- Call home
- Security management
- Troubleshooting features
- FICON
- Zoning
- Switch interoperability mode
- Chapter 11: General solutions
- Chapter 12: SAN event data gathering tips
- Chapter 13: IBM TotalStorage SAN Switch L10 solutions
- Chapter 14: IBM TotalStorage SAN b-type family solutions
- Chapter 15: IBM TotalStorage SAN m-type family solutions
- Chapter 16: Cisco solutions
- Chapter 17: Case studies
- Chapter 18: IBM TotalStorage SAN b-type case study solutions
- Chapter 19: IBM TotalStorage SAN m-type case study solutions
- Chapter 20: Cisco case study solutions
- Chapter 21: Channel extension concepts
- Chapter 22: IBM TotalStorage SAN b-type family channel extension solutions
- Chapter 23: IBM TotalStorage SAN m-type family channel extension solutions
- Chapter 24: Cisco channel extension solutions
- Chapter 25: SAN best practices
- Glossary (1/5)
- Glossary (2/5)
- Glossary (3/5)
- Glossary (4/5)
- Glossary (5/5)
- Related publications
- Index (1/5)
- Index (2/5)
- Index (3/5)
- Index (4/5)
- Index (5/5)
- Back cover
Product information
- Title: IBM TotalStorage: SAN Product, Design, and Optimization Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2005
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: None
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