Practical Storage Area Networking

Daniel Pollack

  • 出版商: Addison Wesley
  • 出版日期: 2002-10-15
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 240
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 0201750414
  • ISBN-13: 9780201750416
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Table of Contents

Preface.
Acknowledgments.
1. SAN Definitions, Concepts, And Components.

What is a SAN?
NAS vs. SAN.
SAN Hardware.
Logical Endpoints.
Network Devices.
Application Devices.
Gateway Devices.

SAN Software.
Operating Systems.
HBA Drivers and Firmware.
Managers.
SAN Applications.

Typical SANs.
NAS Replacement.
Storage Consolidation.
Capacity Planning.
New Project.
Experimental.

Implementing a SAN Project.


2. SAN Project Selection.

Storage Solutions.
Potential SAN Projects (Likely Choices).
Typical Problems.
Identifying a SAN Type.

Understanding Trade-offs.
Performance.
Configuration.
Management.
Availability.
Summary.

I/O Requirements by SAN Type.
Storage Consolidation SAN I/O.
NAS Replacement SAN I/O.
New Project SAN I/O.
Capacity Planning SAN I/O.
Experimental SAN I/O.

Application I/O.
Bandwidth.
IOPS.
I/O Size.
I/O Patterns.
Storage Requirements.

Additional Project Requirements.
File Sharing.
Multipath I/O.
Data Transfer.
Data Replication.


3. Project Modeling.

Storage Requirements.
General Rules for Sizing Storage.
Requirements by SAN Type.

I/O Size Requirements.
I/O Assessment and Analysis Tools.
Analyzing Key Application I/O Characteristics.
NAS Replacement SAN for an NFS Server.
Storage Consolidation of a Data Warehouse (ETL) System.
Analyzing I/O in Other SAN Types.

Simplified SAN Application I/O Models for Verification.
Modeling the NAS Server Replacement.
Modeling the Data Warehouse ETL Consolidation SAN.

Final Project Definition.
NAS Replacement SAN Definition.
Storage Consolidation SAN Definition.
Capacity-Planning SAN Definition.
Other SAN Types.


4. SAN Design.

Hardware Components.
Host Systems and HBAs.
Storage and Fabric Devices.
Special Purpose Devices.

Software Components.
Host Operating Systems.
HBA Device Drivers.
Fabric Device Firmware.
Storage Device Firmware.
SAN Service Software.
Storage Service Software.

Component Map.
Component Selection by SAN Type.
NAS Replacement SAN.
Storage Consolidation SAN.
Capacity Planning SAN.
New Project SAN.
Experimental SAN.

SAN Topologies.
Simple Topologies.
Complex Topologies.

Legacy Devices.
Data Migration.


5. SAN configuration and Testing.

Topologies for SAN Types.
NAS Replacement SAN.
Storage Consolidation SAN.
Capacity-Planning SAN.
New Project SAN.
Experimental SAN.

Zoning, LUN Masking, and LUN Allocation.
Planning for Zones.
Implementing Zones.

SAN Specific Feature Deployment.
Application Specific Fabric Configuration.
A Complete SAN.
Testing.
NAS Replacement SAN.
Storage Consolidation SAN.
Capacity-Planning SAN.
New Project SAN.
Experimental SAN.


6. SAN Control and Monitoring.

Management tools.
SNMP.
Other Network tools.
In-band Management Facilities.

Management Consoles.
Event Monitoring.
Performance Monitoring.
Fabric Zoning Reconfiguration as an Application.
SAN Fabric Security.
SAN Problem Diagnosis.


7. Future San Technologies.

SAN at a Distance.
Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing.
SCSI Over IP.
IPFC on the SAN.

Scalability.
Fabric Performance Increases.
Storage Feature Enhancements.

SAN/Application Integration.
Storage Virtualization.


References.
Acronyms