Storage Area Network

SAN
Team Members:
Lee Kwok Chiu, Albert
Tan Kin Hon, Terence
Wong Siu Por, Paul

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Fibre Channel Tutorial
Concept of Nodes and Ports
Nodes can be Hosts or Devices, the NODE
ports are the bus adapters.
Nodes communicate via three possible P1 P2 P3 PORTS
topologies: Point to point, Loop, and Fabric.
Fabric Loop
N N
NL NL
Point to Point Port Port
Port Port
N N F Port F Port
Port Port FL Port
Switch Switch Hub
E Port E Port
F Port F Port
NL NL
Port Port NL NL
N N
Port Port
port Port
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Storage Area Network (SAN)
Servers
HP-UX NT Linux
HBA: JNI,
IBM SUN
Qlogic, etc
OS: Solaris,
AIX, NT, etc
HP
FC-AL Switches
Hub
Non-HP
Storage Arrays

SCSI
Tapes Libray

Application
Omniback,
Netbackup
Tape Oracle, Sybase
HP Arrays & JBODs EMC Libraries
SAN Mgr LM/DM3
A san configuration
IBM: AIX SUN:solaris
San SAN
Switches Storage switches
array

NT Server

Legend San switches

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HPUX servers = Fibre Channel
Linux servers
San Components
Server systems
IBM(RS6000), SUN(E10000), HP(superdome), DELL)
Storages Device
EMC(Clarion), HDS(9900), IBM(shark), HP(xp1024)
Fibre Channel Switches, hubs
Brocade, Mac-data, Cisco
Backup devices
tape library (Storage Tech )
Management & backup software
Veritas backup, HP openview, Legato, CA unicenter

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 Hardware Features
San Switches -8 & 16 port Fabric
Switches.
-Universal ports (E, F, FL)
-1 Gb/s port speeds
( 2 Gb/s now)

SilkWorm 2400 (8 ports) -Hardware Port Zoning

-ISL Trunking

-Hot-swappable,
redundant cooling fan,
power supply
SilkWorm 2800 (16 ports) Management
- telnet & web browsing
-12000: no single point of
failure

SilkWorm 12000 (128 port core

switches) 6
Switch Management
-using web browsing or telnet

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Why SAN & Workstations

SAN switches ?
SAN
High Speed Manager SAN LAN
Using of Fibre channel
switching technology.
Full duplex bandwidth: 1Gb/s,
2 Gb/s, 8 Gb/s using Trunking Storage Servers LAN Clients

Cost effective San Solution, the market

Storage resource share trend !!
Data is readily across the Server Free backup and
enterprise restore
Improved Return on Clustering
Investment (ROI)
Business continuance &
Centralized management Disaster recovery
High expandability, high Fulfill business
scalability
requirement
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SAN Solution: Server-free back up &
Restore
Traditional network with
each server attached its
tape library.

Using single SAN tape

library for backup.

switches Storage
Backup is centralized
and effective.

Online data copies &

snapshot, and server
downtime is minimized.
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Tape library
San Solutions:Clustering
Redundant path available to
storage device.
No single point of failure.
Non-disruptive maintenance
and upgrade.
Advantages:
Quick application
dynamic failover is
feasible.
Transparent to users.
99.9% system
availability.

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Dual switches
San Solutions:Clustering (contd)
T-Class

V-Class V-Class

Brocade 2800

Legend
= SCSI
= Fibre Channel

High End Array

e.g. XP 512 11
SAN Solutions: Business continuity and
disaster Recovery
Losing Millions of
dollars for hourly
system outage.
(Financial security firms,
Stock Exchange)

High Data & system

availability is
extremely important !
Non-stop !

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SAN Solution: Business continuity and
disaster Recovery (cont.d)
Mirror site set up using
extended fabric (120
ATM KM), using:
DWDM (Dense-Wave
Division Multiplexing)
Extend wavelength
GBIC
SFP (small form Factor
Pluggable interfaces)
Using existing WAN
Technology like ATM
for long distance.

Business operation
resume within a short
time during disaster.
DWDM
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ISL Trunking:
Advantages:
What is ISL? High bandwidth (8Gb/s)
ISL is link between 2 Load sharing
san switches, so call In order frame delivery
inter switching links. Link redundancy on need
for re-routing if one link
What is ISL Trunking? failure
Combine 4 pyhsical Simpler management
ISLs into one single Only one logical link
between 2 switches.
logical links.
Use in between core switch
in large scale SAN.

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 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

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SAN Security- Zoning
Storage Area network devices arranged into specified
logical groups.

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SAN Security- Zoning(contd)
What is san zoning?
Fabric-connected devices
arranged into specified logical
groups, devices can be
members of multiple zone.
Types zoning:
Port Zoning base on switch
port (domain ID, number)
WWN Zoning base on fibre
channel cards World wide
name which is similar to Mac
address of Ethernet 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: barrier
between different operating
environment AIX, Solaris,
hpux, win2000, Linux.
Ease of monitoring:
Can telnet into san switches
Using web browser.
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SAN Security- Zoning example (with ISL trunking)

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SAN(storage area network) & NAS (network attached
storage)
Traditional
Clients Servers
Network
Network w/ attached
Attached
Printers Storage
Storage

LAN
Database File &
Application
Servers Print
Servers
Servers
Fibre
Channel
Fibre Channel
Switches, Hubs, etc. SAN

High-end Mid-range Secondary

Storage Arrays & Storage
Arrays JBOD (DLTs, etc.)

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SAN &NAS (contd)
SAN
Protocol a)Fibre Channel
b)Fibre Channel Scsi
Applications -Mission-critical transaction-
based database application
-High Availability
-Backup & Restore
-Business Continuance
-Storage Consolidation
-Server Consolidation
Advantages -Large, heterogeneous
block data transfer
-Data transfer reliability
-Reduces LAN traffic
-Configuration flexibility
-High Performance
-High Scalability
-Centralized Management
-Multiple Vendor offerings
-Resilience to failure
Nas
TCP/IP
-Limited read only data
base access
-File Sharing in NFS and
CIFS
-Small-block of data
transfer over long
distances
- Simpilied addition of
files sharing capacity
- Easy deployment and
maintenance
- Best for low-volume file
sharing between multiple
peer clients which are
less sensitive to response
times
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 Thank You !!
Questions if any ?

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