Designing storage area networks : a practical reference for implementing fibre channel and IP SANs / Tom Clark.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 543-544) and index.

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

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