Fundamentos De San

SAN Fundamentals
How Fibre Channel SANs are Built, Secured and Managed Tim Thomas Systems Engineering Team Storage Group Sun Microsystems May 18, 2006

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Table of Contents
Introduction.....................................................................................................................................................1 What is Fibre Channel?.......................................................................................................................................... 1 How Fast is Fibre Channel ?..................................................................................................................................... 1 What is a Storage Area Network ?............................................................................................................................ 1 What About IP Based SANs?................................................................................................................................... 1 Fibre Channel Switches and Fabrics.................................................................................................................... 2 What is aFabric?.................................................................................................................................................... 2 Server Host Bus Adapters........................................................................................................................................ 3 Fabric Name Server................................................................................................................................................ 3 World-Wide...