Storage Solution for Aamby Valley

Agenda
• Terminology of networked storage
• Current Setup at Aamby Valley
• Requirement
• Solution
 The Evolution of Storage
from direct to networked
The old way: DAS The new way:
(Direct Attached Storage) Networked Storage
(mainframe)

The
Network

fabric or
Unix switched fabric

application storage
“blade”
servers array or
servers
grid
Windows
 Terminology of networked storage
Blocks: The smallest objects written to or read from a storage device
(like the bricks of a house)

Files: Collections of blocks in various formats that humans can understand

(the whole house).

Filesystem: the transition or virtualization layer between blocks and files.

SCSI: Small Computer Systems Interface. The underlying block protocol

standard for all open systems storage. Legacy SCSI was via 50-pin cabling.

SAN: Storage Area Network. SAN is storage accessed as blocks over an

optical Fibre Channel fabric, using encapsulated SCSI.

NAS: Network Attached Storage. NAS is storage accessed as files over an

Ethernet TCP/IP fabric, using industry standard file sharing protocols like
• NFS (Network File System): used mainly in Unix/Linux environments
• CIFS (Common Internet File System): used in Windows environments

iSCSI: Internet SCSI. The new hybrid of SAN and NAS, where storage is
accessed as blocks over an Ethernet fabric, using encapsulated SCSI.
Traditional SAN and NAS Paradigm
SAN
Application
Server #1 FS Fibre SCSI
RAID
Channel
Controller
Application
Server #2
FS (block ops)
disks

NAS
Application
Server #1 Ethernet SCSI
RAID
TCP/IP FS Controller
Application
Server #2 (file ops) disks
FS = File System

Note: iSCSI disrupts this classic paradigm by introducing block ops over TCP/IP
Current Setup at Aamby Valley
Server 2 Server 3
Server 1

Legend
LAN

CTRL 1 CTRL 2

HITACHI AMS 200

 Requirement
• Agency file are Graphics files like
Photoshop, Coral Draw, Maya
• Each file will be in big size
• Need to have continues File access
• Current requirement will be solved by
NAS storage System
 Solution
Agency Office Aamby Valley Corporate Office

Windows Servers
MAC Clients

NFS

iSCSI

CIFS
&
Inter Office Connectivity

Storage
Thank You

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