1 1 Storage Area Network SAN Team Members: Lee Kwok Chiu, Albert Tan Kin Hon, Te

rence Wong Siu Por, Paul

2 2 Fibre Channel Tutorial Concept of Nodes and Ports Nodes can be Hosts or Devices,
the ports are the bus adapters. Nodes communicate via three possible topologies
: Point to point, Loop, and Fabric. P1P2P3 NODE PORTS N Port N Port Switch Point
to Point N Port N Port N port N Port NL Port NL Port NL Port NL Port Loop F Por
t FL Port NL Port NL Port Hub Fabric E Port Switch
3 3 Storage Area Network (SAN) IBM SUN EMC FC-AL Hub HP SCSI HP Arrays & JBOD s Ta
pe Libraries Non-HP Linux HP-UX NT ? Servers ? HBA: JNI, Qlogic, etc ? OS: Solar
is, AIX, NT, etc ? Switches ? Storage Arrays ? Tapes Libray ? Application ? Omni
back, Netbackup ? Oracle, Sybase ? SAN Mgr LM/DM
4 4 A san configuration = Fibre Channel Legend San Switches NT Server IBM: AIX H
PUX servers SUN:solaris Linux servers SAN switches Storage array San switches
5 5 San Components Server systems ? IBM(RS6000), SUN(E10000), HP(superdome), DEL
L) Storages Device ? EMC(Clarion), HDS(9900), IBM(shark), HP(xp1024) Fibre Chann
el Switches, hubs ? Brocade, Mac-data, Cisco Backup devices ? tape library (Stor
age Tech ) Management & backup software ? Veritas backup, HP openview, Legato, C
A unicenter
6 6 San Switches SilkWorm 2400 (8 ports) SilkWorm 2800 (16 ports) Hardware Featu
res -8 & 16 port Fabric
Switches. -Universal ports (E, F, FL) -1 Gb/s port speed
s ( 2 Gb/s now) -Hardware Port Zoning -ISL Trunking -Hot-swappable, redundant co
oling fan, power supply Management - telnet & web browsing -12000: no single poi
nt of failure SilkWorm 12000 (128 port core switches)
7 7 Switch Management -using web browsing or telnet
8 8 Why SAN & SAN switches ? High Speed ? Using of Fibre channel switching techn
ology. ? Full duplex bandwidth: 1Gb/s, 2 Gb/s, 8 Gb/s using Trunking Servers Wor
kstations LAN Clients Storage LANSAN SAN Manager Cost effective ? Storage resour
ce share ? Data is readily across the enterprise ? Improved Return on Investment
(ROI) ? Centralized management ? High expandability, high scalability San Solut
ion, the market trend !! ? Server Free backup and restore ? Clustering ? Business
continuance & Disaster recovery ? Fulfill business requirement
9 9 SAN Solution: Server-free back up & Restore Traditional network with each se
rver attached its tape library. Using single SAN tape library for backup. Backup
is centralized and effective. Online data copies & snapshot, and server downtim
e is minimized. Tape library Storage switches
10 10 San Solutions:Clustering Redundant path available to storage device. No si
ngle point of failure. Non-disruptive maintenance and upgrade. Advantages: ? Qui
ck application dynamic failover is feasible. ? Transparent to users. ? 99.9% sys
tem availability. Dual switches
11 11 San Solutions:Clustering (cont d) T-Class V-Class Brocade 2800 High End Arra
y e.g. XP 512 = SCSI = Fibre Channel Legend
12 12 SAN Solutions: Business continuity and disaster Recovery Losing Millions o
f dollars for hourly system outage. (Financial security firms, Stock Exchange) H
igh Data & system availability is extremely important ! Non-stop !
13 13 SAN Solution: Business continuity and disaster Recovery (cont.d) Mirror si

te set up using extended fabric (120 KM), using: ? DWDM (Dense-Wave Division Mul
tiplexing) ? Extend wavelength GBIC ? SFP (small form Factor Pluggable interface
s) ? Using existing WAN Technology like ATM for long distance. Business operatio
n resume within a short time during disaster. ATM DWDM
14 14 ISL Trunking: ? What is ISL? ISL is link between 2 san switches, so call i
nter switching links. ? What is ISL Trunking? Combine 4 pyhsical ISLs into one s
ingle logical links. ? Advantages: High bandwidth (8Gb/s) Load sharing In order
frame delivery Link redundancy on need for re-routing if one link failure Simple
r management Only one logical link between 2 switches. Use in between core switc
h in large scale SAN.
15 15 ISL Trunking: Throughput of ISL no (trunking)=(1+1.5+0.5+1+1)Gb/s = 5 Gb/s
Throughput of ISL trunking =(1.5+1.5+0.5+1+2)Gb/s = 7 Gb/s
16 16 SAN Security- Zoning Storage Area network devices arranged into specified
logical groups.
17 17 SAN Security- Zoning(cont d) What is san zoning? Fabric-connected devices ar
ranged into specified logical groups, devices can be members of multiple zone. T
ypes zoning: ? Port Zoning base on switch port (domain ID, number) ? WWN Zoning b
ase on fibre channel card s World wide name which is similar to Mac address of Eth
ernet card. ? Mixed Zoning base on port & WWN. Advantages of zoning: ? Partition
storage area networks into logical groupings of devices. ? Flexible: device can
be member of more than one zone, like tape library. ? Controlled access: barrie
r between different operating environment
AIX, Solaris, hpux, win2000, Linux. ?
Ease of monitoring: Can telnet into san switches Using web browser.
18 18 SAN Security- Zoning example (with ISL trunking)
19 19 SAN (storage area network) & NAS (network attached storage) Clients Networ
k Attached Storage Network Printers LAN Application Servers Database Servers Fil
e & Print Servers High-end Storage Arrays Mid-range Arrays & JBOD Secondary Stor
age (DLTs, etc.) SAN Fibre Channel Traditional Servers w/ attached Storage Fibre
Channel Switches, Hubs, etc.
20 20 SAN &NAS (cont d) SANNas Protocol a)Fibre Channel b)Fibre Channel Scsi TCP/I
P Applications -Mission-critical transaction- based database application -High A
vailability -Backup & Restore -Business Continuance -Storage Consolidation -Serv
er Consolidation -Limited read only data base access -File Sharing in NFS and CI
FS -Small-block of data transfer over long distances Advantages - Large, heterog
eneous block data transfer -Data transfer reliability -Reduces LAN traffic -Conf
iguration flexibility -High Performance -High Scalability -Centralized Managemen
t -Multiple Vendor offerings -Resilience to failure - Simpilied addition of file
s sharing capacity - Easy deployment and maintenance - Best for low-volume file
sharing between multiple peer clients which are less sensitive to response times