What is a Storage Area Network:

SAN components:

Requirements that today’s storage infrastructure meets:

Infrastructure simplification
consolidation, virtualization, automation and integration
Consolidation
Virtualization
Automation
) Integration
Using the SAN components

1) Storage
a) Disk systems
a.1) Just A Bunch Of Disks (JBOD)

a.2) Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID)

b) Tape systems

b.1) Tape drives

b.2) Tape autoloaders
b.3) Tape libraries
2) SAN connectivity
a) Lower level layers
a.1) Ethernet interface

a.2) Fibre Channel

a.3) SCSI
b) Middle level layers
.
b.1) FCP

b.2) iSCSI

b.3) FCIP
FCIP CONNECTION CREATION
b.4) iFCP
 

b.5) FICON
c) Higher level layers
c.1) Server-attached storage

c.2) Network Attached Storage

3) Servers
a) Mainframe servers
b) Unix Based Servers

c) Window Based Servers

d) The iSeries System Architecture
The SCSI legacy
Fiber Channel:
Layers
Physical and signaling layers
Physical interface and media: FC-0
Laser safety
Transmission protocol: FC-1
Framing and signaling protocol: FC-2
Upper layers
Common services: FC-3
Hunt Groups
Hunt Group
2) Striping
Striping
Multicast
Multicast

Upper layer protocol mapping (ULP): FC-4

Fibre Connection
Classes of service
Class 1

Class 2
Class 3
datagram connectionless

Class 4

Class 5

Class 6

Class F
.

Topologies:
Point-to-point
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Arbitrated loop
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Switched fabric
fabric.
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Zoning
Fibre Channel over IP
 
iFCP
iSCSI
Benefits that can be realized by FCIP, iSCSI, iFCP are……..

Management principles
.
SAN management principles includes………

Management types
in-band management out-of-band management.

In-band management
Out-of-band management
.

SAN Management Principles:

Storage level

Network level
Enterprise level
Storage Virtualization:
Virtualization Levels:
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Fabric level

Storage subsystem level

Server level

File system level

.
Storage pooling
disk pooling tape pooling.

Disk pooling
directly attached

Tape pooling
Data sharing
data sharing
Logical volume partitioning
File pooling

True data sharing

Homogeneous data sharing
Heterogeneous data sharing
Clustering
Consolidation

Information lifecycle management

ILM elements
Tiered storage management

Typical storage environment

data value
Multi-tiered storage environment

5) 

Long-term data retention

retention managed data
Data lifecycle management
Policy-based archive management