SAN Design Authority Guide

Author: Tom Clark
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: With the rapid advancement of information technology, an increasing amount of massive data has emerged in business operations and academic research, bringing unprecedented storage "crises" to the IT industry. While advanced technologies such as digital libraries and online video on-demand have brought great convenience to people's lives, they also pose numerous challenges due to their massive data loads and high bandwidth requirements. As a result, people began using high-capacity disks to alleviate some of the burden, but soon discovered that traditional technologies struggle to connect sufficient quantities of disks to file and program servers. The content of this book includes: storage and network concepts; FiberChannel internal analysis; SAN topology; FiberChannel products; SAN fault isolation; SAN management; application research; and an outlook on the future of FiberChannel.