Book description
The superabundance of data that is created by today's businesses
is making storage a strategic investment priority for companies of
all sizes. As storage takes precedence, the following major
initiatives emerge:
Flatten and converge your network: IBM® takes an open,
standards-based approach to implement the latest advances in the
flat, converged data center network designs of today. IBM Storage
solutions enable clients to deploy a high-speed, low-latency
Unified Fabric Architecture.
Optimize and automate virtualization: Advanced virtualization
awareness reduces the cost and complexity of deploying physical and
virtual data center infrastructure.
Simplify management: IBM data center networks are easy to
deploy, maintain, scale, and virtualize, delivering the foundation
of consolidated operations for dynamic infrastructure
management.
Storage is no longer an afterthought. Too much is at stake.
Companies are searching for more ways to efficiently manage
expanding volumes of data, and to make that data accessible
throughout the enterprise. This demand is propelling the move of
storage into the network. Also, the increasing complexity of
managing large numbers of storage devices and vast amounts of data
is driving greater business value into software and services.
With current estimates of the amount of data to be managed and made available increasing at 60% each year, this outlook is where a storage area network (SAN) enters the arena. SANs are the leading storage infrastructure for the global economy of today. SANs offer simplified storage management, scalability, flexibility, and availability; and improved data access, movement, and backup.
Welcome to the cognitive era.
The smarter data center with the improved economics of IT can be achieved by connecting servers and storage with a high-speed and intelligent network fabric. A smarter data center that hosts IBM Storage solutions can provide an environment that is smarter, faster, greener, open, and easy to manage.
This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides an introduction to SAN and Ethernet networking, and how these networks help to achieve a smarter data center. This book is intended for people who are not very familiar with IT, or who are just starting out in the IT world.
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Notices
- Summary of changes
- IBM Redbooks promotions
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Storage area networks
- Chapter 3. Fibre Channel internals
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Chapter 4. Ethernet and system networking concepts
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4.1 Ethernet
- 4.1.1 Shared media
- 4.1.2 Ethernet frame
- 4.1.3 How Ethernet works
- 4.1.4 Speed and bandwidth
- 4.1.5 10 GbE
- 4.1.6 10 GbE copper versus fiber
- 4.1.7 Virtual local area network
- 4.1.8 Interface virtual local area network operation modes
- 4.1.9 Link aggregation
- 4.1.10 Spanning Tree Protocol
- 4.1.11 Link Layer Discovery Protocol
- 4.1.12 Link Layer Discovery Protocol Type Length Values (LLDP TLVs)
- 4.2 Storage area network IP networking
- 4.3 Delving deeper into the protocols
- 4.4 Multiprotocol solution briefs
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4.1 Ethernet
- Chapter 5. Topologies and other fabric services
- Chapter 6. Storage area network as a service for cloud computing
- Chapter 7. Fibre Channel products and technology
- Chapter 8. Management
- Chapter 9. Security
- Chapter 10. Solutions
- Chapter 11. Storage area networks and green data centers
- Chapter 12. IBM Fibre Channel storage area network product portfolio
- Chapter 13. Certification
- Related publications
- Back cover
Product information
- Title: Introduction to Storage Area Networks
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2016
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: 9780738441436
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