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PC Expo showcases RAIDs, crash protection: Hal Glatzer keeps us on top of what's going on at PC Expo. Today he focuses on RAIDs and crash protection products.Interest in RAIDs was piqued at PC Expo, with developers appealing to both the hands-on and the plug-and-play sides of the IT world.Hands-on managers—those who can and do configure...; Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), Storage, PCI, Hal Glatzer, fibre channel, RAID, SCSI, PC Expo, Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop; Technical articles 1999-06-24

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System Architecture of Storage Arrays: When the original Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) specification was drafted it was assumed that the disks used in a system would be connected using a simple daisy chain approach into a logical loop, this is the original Just a Bunch Of Disks JBOD system. The JBOD has the big...; Tags: System Architecture, Disk, Storage, Loop, JBOD; White papers 2006-08-04
How to Cook Up a Storage-Area Network: Storage-area networks SAN are being adopted more frequently today, but uncertainty still exists among users about why to install them and the applications that can make the best use of them. SANs are high-speed networks, similar to LANs, that connect disk subsystems directly to servers or clients. The idea is...; Tags: Fibre Channel, Network, SAN, Network World, Idea, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Storage Management, Hardware; White papers 1999-08-30
SAN Fundamentals: How Fibre Channel SANs Are Built, Secured and Managed: This paper discusses the core technologies that are used to build and secure Fibre Channel based Storage Area Networks. Fibre Channel is a flexible standards based networking architecture that can be used as a transport mechanism for a number of Upper Level Protocols. The most common Upper Level Protocols are...; Tags: Fibre Channel, SAN, Fibre Channel SAN, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Storage Management, Hardware; White papers 2007-04-01
Identify and manage Fibre Channel SAN security risks: This sample chapter, taken from Securing Storage: A Practical Guide to SAN and NAS Security, discusses Fibre Channel SAN security risks. The critical issues associated with SANs, combined with the lack of communication concerning defenses, has created a security gap in storage.This sample chapter from Securing Storage:...; Tags: Security, Chapter, Fibre Channel, SAN, Fibre Channel SAN, Addison-Wesley, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Storage Management, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Hardware; Book chapters 2006-05-05

Fibre Channel Write Acceleration: The Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer Directors and Fabric Switches provide a complete set of intelligent storage services that include Fibre Channel Write Acceleration (FC-WA), which can dramatically improve the number of Small Computer System Interface SCSI I/O operations per second over long-distance in a Fibre Channel-based storage area...; Tags: Fibre Channel, Cisco Systems Inc., Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Hardware; White papers 2005-02-01
IBM BladeCenter Booting JS21 From Fibre Network Attached Storage: This paper demonstrates to the Storage Administrator audience how to prepare, configure, and boot the IBM BladeCenter using IBM Fibre Channel based storage solutions. The initial view of this paper describes how to configure the Blade Center Fibre Channel expansion adapter, provides a brief overview of the BladeCenter I/O module...; Tags: NAS, IBM eServer BladeCenter, Network, IBM Corp., Blade Servers, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Servers, Hardware; White papers 2006-07-01
Fibre Channel Over Ethernet in the Data Center: An Introduction: Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE is a newly proposed standard that is being developed by INCITS T11. The FCoE protocol specification maps Fibre Channel natively over Ethernet and is independent of the Ethernet forwarding scheme. It allows an evolutionary approach towards I/O consolidation by preserving all Fibre Channel constructs, maintaining...; Tags: Data Center, Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel Over Ethernet, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Ethernet, Storage, Hardware, Networking; White papers 2007-10-09
Identify and manage Fibre Channel SAN security risks: The critical issues associated with SANs, combined with the lack of communication concerning defenses, has created a security gap in storage.This sample chapter from Securing Storage: A Practical Guide to SAN and NAS Security discusses Fibre Channel SAN security risks. The chapter covers the following topics:SAN risksRisks of Fibre ChannelFibre...; Tags: Addison-Wesley, attack, fibre channel, fibre channel SAN, NAS, SAN, security, security risk, storage; Download resources 2006-05-05
Fibre Channel Protocol for Linux and z/VM on IBM System z: This paper discusses Fibre Channel Protocol FCP concepts and explains some major hardware and software requirements. The Fibre Channel FC standard was developed by the National Committee of Information Technology Standards NCITS. The System z FCP I/O architecture conforms to the FC standards specified by the NCITS. System z FCP...; Tags: Linux, Fibre Channel, IBM Corp., Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Hardware; White papers 2006-07-01
Fibre Channel and Ethernet starting to converge: Ethernet, the longtime standard for LAN traffic, is seeing another upgrade on the horizon, with 10 Gbps Ethernet beginning to explode onto the market. The speed upgrade will help Ethernet and Fibre Channel, the longtime standard for SAN traffic, converge onto one high speed network, linking servers in large...; Tags: Data Center, Fibre Channel, Intel Corp., Ethernet, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Data Centers, Storage, Network Technology, Networking, Hardware, Data Management, Andy Moon; Blog posts 2007-12-28
Case Study: ATTO Celerity Fibre Channel Storage Adapters: Jumping ahead of the development curve, ATTO Technology has introduced a line of adapters that help solve the advanced storage connectivity problems of the future. Anticipating the connectivity requirements that will result from the changing Storage Area Network SAN, ATTO engineers designed intelligence into the company's new line of Fibre...; Tags: SAN, ATTO Technology, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Hardware; Case studies
First 8Gbps Fibre Channel products are out: It appears that the first 8Gbps Fibre Channel storage networking products are out, as reported by The Register. Still, the sentiment is that it will be unlikely that this new technology will do much to stem the drift to iSCSI over 10Gbps Ethernet, although it might perhaps slow it...; Tags: Storage Networking, iSCSI, Performance, SAN, Video, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Corporate Communications, Performance Management, Storage Management, Hardware, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Paul Mah; Blog posts 2007-08-12
Intel open sources Fibre Channel over Ethernet package: Intel has released a software package that is intended to encourage the development of Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE products for the Linux operating system. If you are scratching your head about what FCoE is, here's an excerpt from Network World: FCoE is a proposed specification...; Tags: Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Intel Corp., Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Hardware, Paul Mah; Blog posts 2007-12-18
Oracle GIT to Save U.S. $2 Million With Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control and NetApp Fibre Channel SAN: The world's largest enterprise software company, Oracle develops software for data management, Enterprise Resource Planning ERP, Customer Relationship Management CRM, and supply chain planning. Oracle has offices in more than 145 countries around the world and 68,000 employees. The company needed much more I/O bandwidth. Log data comes in fast....; Tags: Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Corp., SAN, Fibre Channel SAN, NetApp, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Storage Management, Hardware; Case studies
A Comparative Analysis of High-Speed Switching for Backbone LANs: Fast Ethernet, FDDI, and Fibre Channel: LAN switching has proven its value in boosting available bandwidth while protecting investments in cabling and network interface cards NICs. Backbone LAN switching poses some special requirements compared with departmental LAN switching. Network managers should choose a backbone switching technology based on how it handles different kinds of traffic, how...; Tags: FDDI, Ethernet, Backbone, Fibre Channel, Fast Ethernet, Analysis, LANs, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Network Technology, Networking, Storage, Hardware; White papers
Converging SAN and LAN Infrastructure With Fibre Channel Over Ethernet for Efficient, Cost-Effective Data Centers: Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE is an emerging data transport technology that simplifies the network fabric by converging both Storage Area Network SAN and LAN connectivity onto a single 10 Gigabit Ethernet link. As the use of SANs in the data center continues to grow, FCoE can decrease the cost...; Tags: LAN, Data Center, Fibre Channel, SAN, Fibre Channel Over Ethernet, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Ethernet, Storage Management, Networking, Hardware; White papers 2008-04-22
FibrChanl-02 (fclp) Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i V2 Release Notes: This paper provides information about the B.11.23.0712 release of the FibrChanl-02 fclp Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v2. This release of the FibrChanl-02 fclp Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v2 (version B.11.23.0712) now supports online firmware updates, optical diagnostics, and enables the ns_query_ports option...; Tags: HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., Fibre Channel, Oracle11i, IBM Lotus Notes, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, UNIX, Operating Systems, Databases, Servers, Hardware, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management; White papers 2007-10-01
Army Corps of Engineers Uses iSCSI SAN to Meet Critical Storage Challenges: Despite having owned a fibre channel Storage Area Network SAN for six years, the Huntington District Army Corps of Engineers was still using Direct Attached Storage DAS for the bulk of their data, which includes critical engineering files, congressional files, and public records. But the Fibre channel SAN proved too...; Tags: iSCSI, Fibre Channel, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Hardware; Case studies
Updating Fibre Channel Expansion Card BIOS With RDM 4.30: This paper explains how to use IBM Remote Deployment Manager RDM 4.30 or a later RDM version to update the BIOS on Fibre Channel Expansion Cards in BladeCenter HS20 systems. There are other ways to flash Diagnostics firmware (e.g., with the BIOS diskette, with the UpdateXpress CD, etc.). But using...; Tags: Card, Fibre Channel, IBM Corp., BIOS, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Hardware, Components; White papers 2006-05-11

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