Storage Networks Explained. Basics and Application of Fibre Channel SAN, NAS, iSCSI,InfiniBand and FCoE

Englisch

9780470741436

John Wiley & Sons

Ulf Troppens, Rainer Erkens, Wolfgang Mueller-Friedt, Rainer Wolafka, Nils Haustein

600

2

Gebundene Ausgabe

About the Authors. Foreword to the Second Edition by Hermann Strass. Preface by the Authors. List of Figures and Tables. 1 Introduction. 1.1 Server-Centric IT Architecture and its Limitations. 1.2 Storage-Centric IT Architecture and its Advantages. 1.3 Case Study: Replacing a Server with Storage Networks. 1.4 The Structure of the Book. PART I Technologies for Storage Networks. 2 Intelligent Disk Subsystems. 2.1 Architecture of Intelligent Disk Subsystems. 2.2 Hard Disks and Internal I/O Channels. 2.3 JBOD: Just a Bunch of Disks. 2.4 Storage Virtualisation Using RAID. 2.5 Different RAID Levels in Detail. 2.6 Caching: Acceleration of Hard Disk Access. 2.7 Intelligent Disk Subsystems. 2.8 Availability of Disk Subsystems. 2.9 Summary. 3 I/O Techniques. 3.1 The Physical I/O Path from the CPU to the Storage System. 3.2 SCSI. 3.3 The Fibre Channel Protocol Stack. 3.4 Fibre Channel SAN. 3.5 IP Storage. 3.6 Infiniband-based Storage Networks. 3.7 Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). 3.8 Summary. 4 File Systems and Network Attached Storage (NAS). 4.1 Local File Systems. 4.2 Network File Systems and File Servers. 4.3 Shared Disk File Systems. 4.4 Comparison: Fibre Channel SAN, FCoE SAN, iSCSI SAN and NAS. 4.5 Summary. 5 Storage Virtualisation. 5.1 Once Again: Virtualisation in the I/O Path. 5.2 Limitations and Requirements. 5.3 Definition of Storage Virtualisation. 5.4 Implementation Considerations. 5.5 Storage Virtualisation on Block or File Level. 5.6 Storage Virtualisation on Various Levels of the Storage Network. 5.7 Symmetric and Asymmetric Storage Virtualisation in the Network. 5.8 Summary. PART II Application and Management of Storage Networks. 6 Application of Storage Networks. 6.1 Definition of the Term 'Storage Network'. 6.2 Storage Sharing. 6.3 Availability of Data. 6.4 Adaptability and Scalability of IT Systems. 6.5 Summary. 7 Network Backup. 7.1 General Conditions for Backup. 7.2 Network Backup Services. 7.3 Components of Backup Servers. 7.4 Backup Clients. 7.5 Performance Gains as a Result of Network Backup. 7.6 Performance Bottlenecks of Network Backup. 7.7 Limited Opportunities for Increasing Performance. 7.8 Next Generation Backup. 7.9 Backup of File Systems. 7.10 Backup of Databases. 7.11 Organisational Aspects of Backup. 7.12 Summary. 8 Archiving. 8.1 Terminology. 8.2 Motivation, Conditions and Requirements. 8.3 Implementation Considerations. 8.4 Interfaces in Archive Systems. 8.5 Archive Solutions. 8.6 Operational and Organisational Aspects. 8.7 Summary and Outlook. 9 Business Continuity. 9.1 General Conditions. 9.2 Strategies of Business Continuity. 9.3 Parameters of Business Continuity. 9.4 Quality of Service for Business Continuity. 9.5 Business Continuity Solutions. 9.6 Switch of Operational Location. 9.7 Organisational Aspects. 9.8 Summary. 10. Management of Storage Networks. 10.1 Requirements. 10.2 Characterisation of Management Interfaces. 10.3 In-band Management. 10.4 Out-band Management. 10.5 Operational Aspects of the Management of Storage Networks. 10.6 Summary. 11 Removable Media Management. 11.1 The Significance of Removable Media. 11.2 Removable Media. 11.3 Libraries and Drives. 11.4 Problems and Requirements in Respect of Removable Media Management. 11.5 The IEEE 1244 Standard for Removable Media Management. 11.6 Summary. 12 The SNIA Shared Storage Model. 12.1 The Model. 12.2 Examples of Disk-Based Storage Architectures. 12.3 Extension of the SNIA Shared Storage Model to Tape Functions. 12.4 Examples of Tape-Based Backup Techniques and Architectures. 12.5 Summary. 13 Final Note. Glossary. Annotated Bibliography. Appendix A: Proof of Calculation of the Parity Block of RAID 4 and 5. Appendix B: Checklist for the Management of Storage Networks. B.1 Applications. B.2 Data. B.3 Resources. B.4 Network. Index.

244 mm

16.8 cm