Storage area network management

Storage Area Network Architectures Technology White Paper

iSAN - An Intelligent Storage Area Network Architecture

This paper describes the motivation, architecture and implementation of iSAN, an “intelligent” storage area network. The main contributions of this work are: (1) how to architect an intelligent SAN that understands the storageconsumers to serve them better; (2) how to realise this abstract architecture using existing technologies; and (3) to demonstrate the benefits that would accrue from such ...

Appia: Automatic Storage Area Network Fabric Design

Designing a storage area network (SAN) fabric requires devising a set of hubs, switches and links to connect hosts to their storage devices. The network must be capable of simultaneously meeting specified data flow requirements between multiple host-device pairs, and it must do so cost-effectively, since large-scale SAN fabrics can cost millions of dollars. Given that the number of data flows c...

Network Management Issues in Local Area Network Management

Computer networks are used in different organizations to many purposes. Some use them internally to enable work processes, others may see network as a strategic resource. This paper looks at local area networks, those networks that are the core of the entire information system in organizations today. The are many important management tasks in the area of local area networks, for example expansi...

Reader-writer Locks for Network Attached Storage and Storage Area Network S 1

Network Attached Storage and Storage Area Networks are emerging as the technology of choice for large-scale data storage. A key feature of such storage devices is that they can be directly accessed by applications without the intervention of le servers. Hence, issues such as data-sharing and security cannot be handled by le-servers. This paper addresses the issue of data-sharing by presenting a...