Table of Contents

Preface.
Acknowledgments.
1. Introduction.
2. Storage and Networking Concepts.
3. Fibre Channel Internals.
4. Fibre Channel SAN Topologies.
5. Fibre Channel Products.
6. IP SAN Technology.
7. IP SAN Products.
8. SAN Software Products.
9. Problem Isolation in SANs.
10. Management of SANs.
11. Storage Virtualization.
12. Application Studies.
13. SAN Issues.
14. The Future of SAN.
Appendix A. SAN Resources.
Appendix B. SAN and Related Vendors.
Appendix C. The Standardization Process.
Appendix D. The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).
Appendix E. The SNIA Shared Storage Model.
Appendix F. The SNIA Dictionary of Storage Networking Terminology.
Appendix G. SAN Essays.
Bibliography.