Storage Area Networks

Storage Area Networks (SANs)

Introduction 1 SAN Fundamentals 1 What Is a SAN? 1 Benefits of SANs 3 SAN Applications 3 SAN Architecture 4 SAN Operating System Software Components 5 SAN Technologies and Solutions 5 Fiber-Channel-Arbitrated Loop Transport Protocol (FC-AL) 5 InfiniBand Solutions 6 Crossroads Systems With a Storage Router 6 Brocade’s Configurations 6 Other Storage Networking Technologies 6 VI (Virtual Interface...

Storage Area Networks and the High Performance Storage System

The High Performance Storage System (HPSS) is a mature Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) system that was developed around a network-centered architecture, with client access to storage provided through third-party controls. Because of this design, HPSS is able to leverage today's Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructures to provide cost effective, large-scale storage systems and high perfo...

Configuring Storage Area Networks for Mandatory Security

Storage-area networks are a popular and efficient way of building large storage systems both in an enterprise environment and for multi-domain storage service providers. In both environments the network and the storage has to be configured to ensure that the data is maintained securely and can be delivered efficiently. In this paper we describe a model of mandatory security for multi-domain sto...

Distributed File Systems for Storage Area Networks

This paper discusses some fundamental aspects of Distributed File Systems (DFS) for Storage Area Networks (SANs). Many desirable features make a SAN DFS attractive to a production environment that processes huge volumes of bulk data and requires high bandwidth. Throughout the discussion, the traditional server-attached storage model is compared against the distributed network-attached storage m...

Storage Area Networks Security Protocols and Mechanisms