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James Long's Storage Networking Protocol Fundamentals PDF

By James Long

ISBN-10: 1587051605

ISBN-13: 9781587051609

A concise advent to garage networking protocolsIntroduces community directors to the necessities of garage protocolsCompares and contrasts the fundamental performance of Ethernet, IP, and Fibre ChannelThe primary sequence from Cisco Press launches the root to readers for realizing the aim, program, and administration of technologiesA plethora of recent garage networking items have seemed out there, and extra are anticipated to seem because the industry keeps to extend. The IDC predicts the complete storage/storage networking marketplace will achieve $71.4 billion in 2006. With such a lot of new garage networking items out there, the basics sequence from Cisco press is the best sequence for a garage networking protocols e-book. community directors, process directors, and garage directors needs to strengthen new talents to successfully set up and aid new garage networking items because the paradigm maintains to shift. This publication is geared toward readers who've lately entered the garage networking box. The foundational studying within the booklet will give you the reader with a simple comparability of assorted networking applied sciences which are popular to move mainstream garage protocols. particularly it offers a comparative research of Ethernet, TCP/IP and Fibre Channel within the context of garage. This ebook starts off with an outline of the garage networking then proceeds to an summary of the OSI Reference version and customary community protocols. subsequent, implementation of universal companies inside of every one protocol is in comparison. The ebook then turns its concentration from normal networking to garage networking via introducing the reader to storage-specific protocols. The publication concludes with a quick advent to garage protocol research and applied sciences comparable garage networking.

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IOAs generally operate on signals in the 15301570 nm range, which overlaps the WDM window. As the name suggests, amplification occurs within the fiber. A typical IOA is a box containing a length of special fiber that has been doped during manufacture with a rare earth element. The most common type of IOA is the erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA). The normal fiber is spliced into the special fiber on each side of the EDFA. Contained within the EDFA is an optical carrier generator that operates at 980 nm or 1480 nm.

Relative independence from proprietary subsystem-based solutions and host operating system requirements enables the storage administrator to virtualize storage consistently across the enterprise. A higher level of management centralization is realized because there are fewer switches than storage subsystems or hosts. Logical disks can span multiple physical disks in separate subsystems. Other benefits derive from the transparency of storage as viewed from the host, which drives heterogeneity in the storage subsystem market and precipitates improved interoperability.

On a positive note, host-based implementations make it relatively easy to failover or migrate from one storage subsystem to another, although some storage vendors restrict this capability through the imposition of proprietary host-based failover software. Storage Subsystem Implementations The current generation of storage subsystems implement virtualization techniques that can be described as RAID on steroids. One or more controllers in the subsystem manage the physical devices within the subsystem and perform the striping, mirroring, and parity calculation functions in RAID configurations.

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