Fibre Channel for SANs (Professional Telecom) - Softcover

Benner, Alan Frederic

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071374132 ISBN 13: 9780071374132

Verlag: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Practical Roadmap For Designing And Deploying A San Fibre Channel has come into its own as the defining network architecture for Storage Area Networks (SANs), which are proving critical for managing the volume and complexity of data generated by Internet-era applications. Fibre Channel for SANs, by Dr. Alan F. Benner, shows you how Fibre Channel works, how it integrates with other protocols and systems, and how to implement it to create a SAN for fast access to mass storage. It walks you through the ANSI standard’s 5 levels, from the physical transmission level through interfaces to upper layer protocols, and demonstrates mapping SCSI and IP over Fibre Channel. You get a wealth of timesaving illustrations and practical suggestions for troubleshooting. You learn how to:

*Build expertise in the standard used by ISPs for Web page storage, and by enterprise data centers for managing multi-Terabyte storage requirements
*Create bandwidth-sparing solutions for multimedia—voice, video, animation, music—and real-time video conferencing
*Implement logins and logouts, link services, error detection and recovery, flow control, and more

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr. Alan F. Benner is currently a network architect and designer at IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratory, concentrating on system-level design of communications systems for high-performance and enterprise computing platforms. His most recent work has involved interconnect design for high-performance distributed multiprocessor systems, and architecture definition for the InfiniBandTM architecture for server I/O and clustering.

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***** “Read this book before implementing a Storage Area Network Understanding the theory behind the Fibre Channel protocol is necessary before deploying a SAN into your infrastructure … Considering how technical the subject is, I found this book incredibly easy to understand … definitely recommended reading for any System Administrator looking to stay in demand.”--a reader at Amazon.com, on the author’s earlier Fibre ChannelFibre Channel is a high-performance interconnect standard capable of transporting huge amounts of traffic among desktop workstations, mass storage subsystems, peripherals, and host systems at speeds 10 to 250 times faster than typical LANs. Briefly eclipsed by Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel has come into its own again as the defining network architecture for Storage Area Networks (SANs), which are proving critical for managing the volume and complexity of data generated by Internet-era applications. Design and Deploy a SAN with Step-by-Step GuidanceWritten by a leading authority on the high-performance Fibre Channel ANSI standard, Fibre Channel author Dr Alan F. Benner, this new guide gives you both an easy-to-understand overview and a practical roadmap for SAN design and deployment. Fibre Channel for SANs-:*Shows you how Fibre Channel works, how it integrates with other protocols and systems, and how to implement it to create a SAN for fast access to mass storage*Helps you build expertise in the standard used by ISPs for Web page storage, and by enterprise data centers for managing multi-Terabyte storage requirements*Explains how to create bandwidth-sparing solutions for multimedia—voice, video, animation, music—and real-time video conferencing*Walks you through the ANSI standard’s 5 levels, from the physical transmission level through interfaces to upper layer protocols*Provides clear directions on implementing logins and logouts, link services, error detection and recovery, flow control, and more*Demonstrates mapping SCSI and IP over Fibre Channel*Offers a wealth of timesaving illustrations*Provides practical suggestions for troubleshooting Fibre Channel networksThe Best Guide to Applying Fibre Channel—For a Bigger, Better, Faster, More Capable Data Network

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0071374132
• ISBN 13: 9780071374132
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
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