By Mike Flannagan
Development SANs with Brocade Fibre Channel cloth Switches is a realistic advisor to the entire ideas essential to combine fibre-based switches to an IP-based community. It starts with a close research of the advantages of imposing a SAN and an exam of the and bandwidth specifications. From there, it proceeds to a dialogue of the Brocade SilkWorm sequence of fibre channel switches and the way some of the switches are configured to attach a SAN with current LANs.
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Protocols such as IP available on Fibre Channel also make SANs attractive for some general networking applications, and VI clustering support allows installations to leverage their SAN infrastructure for VI-enabled clustering applications. Finally, the distance capabilities of Fibre Channel and bridges to Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) and even Wide Area Networks (WANs) have enabled a new level of disaster tolerance for storage resources. Ensuring High Availability As the Internet and digital data have grown exponentially,Web caching techniques,Web load balancers and distributed server clusters, and other techniques have been used to handle the demands of serving up Web requests for static pages.
Multimedia attachments, the movement of business processes to e-mail, and just the sheer volume of e-mail have made the storage and backup of e-mail one of the most pressing requirements of IT departments. 140_SANs_01 8/14/01 1:32 PM Page 9 Introduction to SANs • Chapter 1 The Internet has also affected the need for storage, with increasing numbers of Web servers and storage required to support those Web servers. As information is increasingly digitized and published on the Web, there is an insatiable appetite for storage to contain that information.
Compared with other technologies, such as IPbased file sharing and Network Attached Storage (NAS), the Fibre Channel protocol provides for more usable bandwidth and faster data transfer. Distance is another factor in deciding to use SAN infrastructure. If data needs to be distributed across a building, campus, or city, a storage network is perfect. Long cable lengths, multiple cabling options, and robust components make a SAN a perfect fit for distributing data. For example, many companies have solved the problem of not having enough space for all of the data and hosts they need in a single server room by running Fibre Channel from different parts of the building together.