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 & JBOD’s 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 (cont’d)
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(cont’d)
 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 card’s 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 (cont’d)
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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