CONCEPTS FIBER SWITCH
SAN SWITCH NETWORK BASIC
SAN Switch basic concepts SAN environment provides block-oriented I/O
between the computer systems and the target disk systems. The SAN may use Fiber
Channel or Ethernet (iSCSI) to provide connectivity between hosts and storage.
In either case, the storage is physically decoupled from the hosts. The storage
devices and the hosts now become peers attached to a common SAN fabric that
provides high bandwidth, longer reach distance, the ability to share resources,
enhanced availability, and other benefits of consolidated storage.
SAN is created by using the Fiber Channel to link
peripheral devices such as disk storage and tape libraries
A SAN (Storage Area Network) Switch is device that
connects the sever and shared pools of the storage devices and is dedicated to
moving storage Traffic. It is shown as below
Servers,
SAN Storage, SAN Switch Connectivity Diagram
SAN
Switch will contain below physical parts
1. One /
Two Hot Swap-able Power supply units
2. SFP
(Small Form Factor plugged) Ports
3. Out
Band Management Port (RJ45)
4. Console
Port
5. USB
ports
6. FC
ports (count is depend up on the model)
