Chapter 11. Connection Redundancy in Storage Networks and Dynamic Multipathing

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to

  • Participate in planning or analysis meetings discussing redundancy methods used in your organization

  • Analyze dynamic multipathing solutions and products that you are using or considering

  • Participate in planning sessions for provisioning LUNs within storage subsystems

  • Diagram multipathing designs, including all hosts, initiators, and subsystem ports

The construction of a storage network infrastructure needs to balance the competing goals of flexibility and stability. A storage network infrastructure should be flexible enough to allow a large number of systems to use it, but it also needs to provide stable data services ...

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