STORAGE

DAS: DIRECT ATTACHED STORAGE

NAS: NETWORK ATTACHED STORAGE

CAS: CONTENT ADDRESSABLE STORAGE

SAN: STORAGE AREA NETWORK

DIRECT ATTACHED STORAGE

CAPTIVE STORAGE

ESCON, PARALLEL SCSI OR DIRECT

ATTACHED FIBER CHANNEL.

LIMITED DISTANCE AND SHARING

CAPABILITIES.

NETWORK ATTACHED STORAGE

UNLIMITED DISTANCE

NFS AND WINDOWS NETWORK

“SHARES” ARE TYPICAL APPLICATIONS

CONTENT ADDRESSABLE STORAGE

FIXED CONTENT DATA

DATA IS ACCESSED USING UNIQUELY

CALCULATED CONTENT ADDRESS (CA)

CLIENT APPLICATION ACCESS USING API

OVER IP NETWORK.
 STORAGE AREA NETWORK

APPLICATION OF NETWORK

TECHNOLOGY TO SOLVE CAHNNEL

LIMITATIONS.

HUBS ABD SWITCHED

GREATER DISTANCE AND MORE.

FLEXIBLE IN SHARING STORAGE

SYSTEMS.

CLARIION FOUNDATIONS:

FIRST FULL FIBER CHANNEL STORAGE SYSTEM

FIRST 4GB END TO END STORAGE SOLUTION

CLARiiON ARCHITECTURE IS BASE ON INTELLIGENT STORAGE

PROCESSOR/BLADES (SPs), THAT MANAGE PHYSICAL DRIVES
ON THE BACK AND SERVICE HOST REQUEST ON THE
FRONTEND, BE IT FIBER CHANNEL(FC) OR iSCSI PROTOCOL.

CLARiiON MESSAGING INTERFACE (CMI) ---------- CX3

MIRROD WRITE CACHE. WRITE CACHE IS MIRROD BETWEEN

STORAGE PROCESSOR FOR AVAILABILITY USING THE CMI.

CLARiiON DISK SECTORS CONTAINS 520 BYTES EACH. 512

BYTES ARE DEDICATED TO HOST DATA, WHILE OTHER 8
BYTES ARE USED FOR HOUSEKEEPING PURPOSE.

PSM: PERSISTANT STORAGE MANAGER IS A HIDDEN LUN
THAT RECORDS CONFIGURATION INFORMATION.

 META LUN IS CREATED BY COMBINING LUNS.

 SET OF STRIPED LUNS IS CALLED A COMPONENT

 LUNS ARE ASSIGNED TO STORAGE GROUP.

 THE ELEMENT SIZE IS CONFIGURABLE ON A PER LUN BASIS AND

MUST BE SETUP WHEN THE LUN IS CREATED.

 ALPA – ARBIRATED LOOP PHYSICAL ADDRESS

 CONTROL CENTER CONSOLE – FULL END – END MANAGEMENT.

 ACCESS CONTROL IS IMPLEMENTED IN CLARiiON USING ACCESS

LOGIX CODE THAT RUNS IN THE STORAGE PROCESSOR.

HOST AND STORAGE LAYOUT:

LAYOUT THE CORRECT WAY TO ATTACH
HOSTS AND STORAGE TO A SAN IS COMPLETELY DEPENDANT UPON
CUSTOMER ENVIRONENT.

THE BEST PRACTICE PLACED HOSTS ON EDGE SWITCHES AND HIGH-

USE STORAGE PORTS ON CORE SWITCHES.

FCP: IS THE INTERFACE PROTOCOL OF SCSI ON THE FIBERCHANNEL.

FCIP: RELIES ON IP-BASED NETWORK SERVICES TO PROVIDE THE

CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN THE SAN ISLANDS OVER LAN OR WAN.

IFCP: IS A GATEWAY TO GATEWAY PROTOCOL WHICH PROVIDES

FIBER CHANNEL FABRIC SERVICES TO FIBER CHANNEL DEVICES AVER
TCP/IP NETWORK.

GATEKEEPER DEVICE:
DEVICE: LOW LEVEL I/O COMMANDS ISSUES USING
SYMMCLI ARE ROUTED TO A SYMMETRIX ARRAY VIA SYMMETRIX
STORAGE DEVICE IS SPECIFIED AS A GATEKEEPER DEVICE.

LUN MASKING: LUN(LOGICAL UNIT NUMBER) MASKING IS AN

AUTHORIZATION PROCESS THAT MAKES A LUN AVAILABLE TO SOME
HOSTS AND UNAVAILABLE TO OTHER HOSTS.

LUN MASKING IS IMPLEMENTED PRIMARILY AT HBA LEVEL.

SAN ZONING: IS A METHOD OF ARRANGING FIBER CHANNEL DEVICES
INTO LOGICAL GROUPS OVER THE PHYSICAL CONFIGURATION OF
THE FABRIC.

SAN ZONING MAY BE UTILIZED TO IMPLEMENT

COMPARTMENTALIZATION OF DATA FOR SECURITY PURPOSES.

EACH DEVICE IN A SAN MAY BE PLACED INTO MULTIPLE ZONES.

HARD AND SOFT ZONING: HARD ZOANING PHYSICALLY BLOCKS

ACCESS TO A ZONE FROM ANY DEVICE OUTSIDE OF THE ZONE.

SOFT ZOANING USES FILTERING IMPLEMETED IN FIBER CHANNEL

SWITCHES TO PREVENT PORTS FROM BEING SEEN FROM OUTSIDE OF
THEIR ASSIGNED ZONES.

PORT ZOANING: UTILIZES PHYSICAL PORTS TO DEFINE SECURITY

ZONES. A USERS ACCESS TO DATA IS DETERMINED BY WHAT
PHYSICAL PORT THE USER IS CONNECTED TO.

WITH PORT ZOANING, ZOAN INFORMATION MUST BE UPDATED

EVERY TIME A USER CHANGES SWITCH PORTS. IN ADDITION, PORT
ZOANING DOES NOT ALLOW ZONES TO OVERLAP.

HARESH MAITREYA KV