Book description
A guide to planning, implementing, managing, and using storage area networks to increase the efficiency of your network infrastructure
Gain in-depth coverage of SAN fundamentals, topologies, implementation and management techniques, and products
Build and sharpen your troubleshooting skills for data-mining, online transaction processing, imaging, data warehousing, and other highly data-intensive applications
Understand how to implement the Fibre Channel and iSCSI protocols, which are key to any SAN solution
Learn current industry implementation and application standards, as well as future advances
During the last decade, a multitude of changes in computing technology and the globalization of business through the Internet have resulted in a tremendous growth in storage requirements. This has forced many organizations around the world to reassess the way they view their storage environment. Many applications, such as e-commerce, imaging, data warehousing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Customer Relationship Management (CRM), fill storage media quickly. Data accessibility and availability for these applications has to be fast and efficient. Clearly, the ever-increasing information access requirements have had a profound effect on most data centers. As a result, many organizations are searching for cost-effective ways to ensure high data availability and reliability.
Storage Area Network Fundamentals presents the benefits of storage area networks (SANs) to corporate users and enables them to deploy SAN technology effectively. Designed as an introduction to SANs, Storage Area Network Fundamentals develops an understanding of SAN basics and shows how to plan, implement, and manage a SAN. This book covers the topologies, protocols, and products required to implement and manage efficient SANs.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Networking and Storage Concepts
- 2. Introduction to Storage Area Networks
- 3. Fibre Channel Basics
- 4. Fibre Channel Products
- 5. Fibre Channel Cabling
- 6. SAN Topologies
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7. Designing and Building a SAN
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SAN Design Considerations
- Business Requirements
- Performance
- Physical Layout of the Storage Network
- Placement of Storage Systems
- Storage Pooling
- Data Availability
- Heterogeneity
- Future Storage Requirements
- Connectivity
- Scalability
- Migration
- Manageability
- Fault Tolerance and Resilience
- Prevention of Congestion
- Routability
- Backup and Restore
- Security
- Designing a SAN
- Constructing a SAN
- SAN Best Practices
- Summary
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SAN Design Considerations
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8. Implementing SAN Security
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General Security Guidelines
- Controlling Physical Access to the SAN and Its Components
- Implementing Passwords
- Disabling the Web Browser Management Interface
- Disabling Remote Management
- Implementing Fiber-Optic Cables
- Implementing Perimeter Security
- Securing In-Transit Data
- Implementing the Administration Policy
- Restricting Access to Multiple Storage Systems
- Choosing a Reliable Service Provider
- Analyzing Vulnerability
- Implementing the Management Policy
- Securing a SAN
- Securing Business Environments
- Summary
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General Security Guidelines
- 9. Problem Isolation and Management of SANs
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10. iSCSI Technology
- The Emergence of iSCSI Technology
- iSCSI Concepts
- iSCSI Design Considerations and Security Requirements
- Summary
- 11. Future of SANs
- A. RAID Technology and Fibre Channel Vendors
- Glossary
Product information
- Title: Storage Area Network Fundamentals
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2002
- Publisher(s): Cisco Press
- ISBN: 9781587050657
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