FibreChannel – Zone & Zoning

• Switch-Based Access Control
• Analogous to an Ethernet Broadcast Domain
• Soft Zone
  - Zoning based on WWPN of Nodes Connected
  - Preferred
• Hard Zone
  - Zoning Based on Port Number on Switch to which the Nodes are Connected

FibreChannel - WWPN

• World-Wide Port Number
• A unique 64-bit hardware address for each FibreChannel Device
• Analogous to a 48-bit ethernet hardware address
• WWNN - World-Wide Node Number

FibreChannel Definitions

• WWPN
• Zone & Zoning
• LUN
• LUN Masking

SAN Delivers Business Benefits

Reduce Costs
-Storage consolidation
-Server consolidation
- Result: fewer resources to manage

Business Continuity
-Storage consolidation enables business continuity
-Consolidation reduces risks via multiple backup devices with multiple points of control
-Consolidated data—managed, controlled, and synchronized more efficiently

Business Flexibility
-Let IT manage growth more easily
-More information moves faster
-Meet your existing service-level agreements

Manageability
-Centralize storage management and automate control of devices
-Achieve storage-management efficiencies
-Fewer people manage more

SAN Benefits

• High availability and manageability
  All servers access same storage
  Simplified management
  Service for multiple platforms
• Application performance
  SAN provides a dedicated network
  Database-management system / transaction processing
  Fastest record access
• Fast scalability
  Hundreds of servers
  Hundreds of storage devices
  Leverages existing infrastructure
  Overcomes distance limitations
• Better replication and recovery options
• Storage consolidation optimizes total cost of ownership
  
  

Typical Data Center