Storage Area Network

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

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.

NODE
P1

Fabric
Point to Point
N
Port

N
Port

N
Port
F Port

Switch

E Port
F Port

NL
Port

NL
Port

N
port

P2

P3

PORTS

Loop
N
Port

NL
Port

F Port
FL Port

Hub

Switch

E Port
F Port

N
Port

NL
Port

NL
Port

NL
Port
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Storage Area Network (SAN)

HP-UX

NT

Linux

IBM

SUN

HP

Switches

FC-AL
Hub
Non-HP

Storage Arrays
SCSI

HP Arrays & JBODs

EMC

Servers
HBA: JNI,
Qlogic, etc
OS: Solaris,
AIX, NT, etc

Tape
Libraries

Tapes Libray
Application
Omniback,
Netbackup
Oracle,
Sybase
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SAN Mgr

A san configuration
IBM: AIX

SUN:solaris
San
Switches

Storage
array

SAN
switches

NT Server

Legend

HPUX servers

Fibre Channel

San switches

Linux servers

San Components
Server

systems

IBM(RS6000), SUN(E10000), HP(superdome), DELL)

Storages

EMC(Clarion), HDS(9900), IBM(shark), HP(xp1024)

Fibre

Channel Switches, hubs

Brocade, Mac-data, Cisco

Backup

Device

devices

tape library (Storage Tech )

Management

& backup software

Veritas backup, HP openview, Legato, CA unicenter

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San Switches

SilkWorm 2400 (8 ports)

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

Switch Management
-using web browsing or telnet

Why SAN &

SAN switches ?

High Speed

SAN
Manager

SAN

Using of Fibre channel

switching technology.
Full duplex bandwidth: 1Gb/s,
2 Gb/s, 8 Gb/s using Trunking

Workstations

Cost effective

Storage resource share

Data is readily across the
enterprise
Improved Return on
Investment (ROI)
Centralized management
High expandability, high
scalability

Storage

LAN

Servers LAN Clients

San Solution, the market

trend !!

Server Free backup and restore

Clustering
Business continuance &
Disaster recovery
Fulfill business requirement

SAN Solution: Server-free back up &

Restore

Traditional network with

each server attached its
tape library.

Using single SAN tape

library for backup.

Backup is centralized
and effective.

Online data copies &

snapshot, and server
downtime is minimized.

switches

Storage

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.

Dual switches

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San Solutions:Clustering (contd)

T-Class
V-Class

V-Class

Brocade
2800

Legend
= SCSI
= Fibre Channel

High End Array

e.g. XP 512

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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)

ATM

Mirror site set up using

extended fabric (120
KM), using:

DWDM

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.
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ISL Trunking:

What is ISL?

ISL is link between 2

san switches, so call
inter switching links.

What is ISL Trunking?

Combine 4 pyhsical
ISLs into one single
logical links.

Advantages:
High bandwidth (8Gb/s)
Load sharing
In order frame delivery
Link redundancy on need
for re-routing if one link
failure
Simpler management

Only one logical link

between 2 switches.

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.

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:

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.

Can telnet into san switches

Using web browser.

Mixed Zoning base on port

& WWN.

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SAN Security- Zoning example (with ISL trunking)

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SAN(storage area network) & NAS (network attached

storage)
Client
s

Network
Attached
Storage

Network
Printers

Traditional
Servers
w/ attached
Storage

LAN
Application
Servers

Database
Servers

File &
Print
Servers
Fibre
Channel

Fibre Channel
Switches, Hubs, etc.

High-end
Storage
Arrays

Mid-range
Arrays &
JBOD

SAN

Secondary
Storage
(DLTs, etc.)

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SAN &NAS (contd)

SAN

Nas

Protocol

a)Fibre Channel
b)Fibre Channel Scsi

TCP/IP

Applications

-Mission-critical transactionbased database application

-High Availability
-Backup & Restore
-Business Continuance
-Storage Consolidation
-Server Consolidation

-Limited

-Large, heterogeneous

- Simpilied addition of
files sharing capacity

Advantages

block data transfer

-Data transfer reliability
-Reduces LAN traffic
-Configuration flexibility
-High Performance
-High Scalability
-Centralized Management
-Multiple Vendor offerings
-Resilience to failure

read only data

base access
-File

Sharing in NFS and

CIFS
-Small-block of data
transfer over long
distances

- 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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