Front cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Summary of changes -- August 2003, Second Edition -- Part 1 Survival tactics -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Beyond disaster recovery -- 1.1.1 Whose responsibility is it? -- 1.1.2 The Internet brings increased risks -- 1.1.3 Planning for business continuity -- 1.2 Using a SAN for business continuance -- 1.2.1 SANs and business continuance -- 1.3 SAN business benefits
1.3.1 Storage consolidation and sharing of resources1.3.2 Data sharing -- 1.3.3 Non-disruptive scalability for growth -- 1.3.4 Improved backup and recovery -- 1.3.5 High performance -- 1.3.6 High availability server clustering -- 1.3.7 Improved disaster tolerance -- 1.3.8 Allow selection of “best of breed� storage -- 1.3.9 Ease of data migration -- 1.3.10 Reduced total costs of ownership -- 1.3.11 Storage resources match e-business enterprise needs -- Chapter 2. SAN fabric components -- 2.1 ASIC technology -- 2.2 Fiber optic interconnects
2.2.1 Small Form Factor Optical Transceivers2.2.2 Gigabit Interface Converters -- 2.2.3 Gigabit Link Modules -- 2.2.4 Media Interface Adapters -- 2.2.5 1x9 transceivers -- 2.2.6 Fibre Channel adapter cable -- 2.3 Fibre Channel ports -- 2.3.1 Port types -- 2.4 SAN topologies -- 2.4.1 Point-to-point -- 2.4.2 Arbitrated loop -- 2.4.3 Logins -- 2.4.4 Switched fabric -- 2.4.5 WWN and WWPN -- 2.4.6 Zoning -- 2.4.7 Expanding the fabric -- 2.5 SAN software management standards -- 2.5.1 Application management -- 2.5.2 Data management
2.5.3 Resource management2.5.4 Network management -- 2.5.5 Element management -- 2.5.6 Storage Management Initiative -- 2.5.7 InfiniBand -- 2.6 Fabric management methods -- 2.6.1 Common methods -- 2.6.2 Hardware setup for switch management -- 2.6.3 Managing with Telnet -- 2.7 SAN standards -- 2.7.1 SAN industry associations and organizations -- 2.7.2 List of evolved Fibre Channel standards -- Chapter 3. SAN features -- 3.1 Fabric implementation -- 3.1.1 Blocking -- 3.1.2 Ports -- 3.1.3 Inter-Switch Links -- 3.1.4 RSCN -- 3.2 Classes of service
3.2.1 Class 13.2.2 Class 2 -- 3.2.3 Class 3 -- 3.2.4 Class 4 -- 3.2.5 Class 5 -- 3.2.6 Class 6 -- 3.2.7 Class F -- 3.2.8 Communication -- 3.2.9 Solutions -- 3.3 Distance -- 3.3.1 Dark fiber -- 3.3.2 Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing -- 3.3.3 Primary and secondary routes -- 3.4 Time-out values -- 3.4.1 Time-out value settings -- 3.5 Buffers -- 3.6 Data protection -- 3.6.1 RAID -- 3.6.2 Mirroring -- 3.6.3 Clustering -- 3.6.4 Dual pathing -- 3.7 SAN platforms -- 3.7.1 zSeries and S/390 -- 3.7.2 pSeries -- 3.7.3 xSeries -- 3.7.4 iSeries
