Storage Network Protocols

Storage Networking Concepts

• IP storage
• FCIP, iFCP, iSCSI, iSNS
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet
If you are going for SAN architecture then you need to consider the following points.

Fundamentals of SAN

• Storage Networking Architectures
• SAN solutions and supporting technologies
• SAN topologies
• Fiber Channel and IP storage
• SAN protocols
• RAID levels (RAID0,RAID1,RAID3,RAID4,RAID5,RAID0+1,RAID1+0 )
• SAN management practices and tools
• SAN design and implementation, configuration & fine-tuning
• SAN visibility report management
• SAN standards
• Troubleshooting and optimization
To get better results on performance the above mentioned should be fine-tuned which improves the performance drastically.
Most of the SAN storages merely depend upon FC channels.

Fundamentals of FC

• Fiber Channel architecture
• Fabric architecture
• FC-AL architecture
• FC-AL topology design
• FC Protocol
• Fibre Channel operations
• FC topologies - Depends on the way you are going to use, for eg. Point to Point, Arbitrated Loop, Switched Fabric
• Virtualization, authentication (POSIX ACLs), file sharing, & replication.
• FC SAN - distance, speed, connectivity, and scalability calculation. This has to be very accurate and flawless