FC SAN-Fibre Channel storage area networks

Reference:

Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel

http://blog.itpub.net/26427494/viewspace-1382649/

FC San, which is the San with FC, take a look at the relevant concepts of the FC San:

FC Historical Roadmap:

NAME	Line-rate (Gigabaud)	Line coding	Throughput (full duplex; MB/s) *	Availability
1GFC	1.0625	8b10b	200	1997
2GFC	2.125	8b10b	400	2001
4GFC	4.25	8b10b	800	2004
8GFC	8.5	8b10b	1,600	2005
10GFC	10.52	64b66b	2,400	2008
16GFC	14.025	64b66b	3,200	2011
32GFC	28.05		6,400	(projected)
128GFC	4x28.05		25,600	(projected)

What we're currently testing is 16GFC SLIC.

FC topologies are divided into three types:

Point-to-Point (fc-p2p): Point-to-point

Arbitrated Loop (fc-al): Arbitration ring

Switched fabric (FC-SW): Fibre Channel switched fabric with FC switch

Hba:

Fibre Channel Host bus adapters, Hba=, is actually the equivalent of a network card, but even the fiber optic cable.

WWN:

World Wide Name (WWN), similar to the MAC address of an IP network, has a unique WWN for each HBA.

In a SAN environment, there are two types of WWN, WWNN (World Wide Node name) and WWPN (World Wide Port name). As the name implies, WWNN is typically for storage devices or storage controllers (Controller), while WWPN is for each port. Because the actual communication is corresponding to the port, in the actual application, it is often used WWPN, such as SAN partition, storage device LUN mapping, etc., all involve the operation to WWPN.

Each of the different FC switches is typically marked with a Node WWN, which is unique, and port WWPN is used to indicate the port of the switch for the ports of the FC switch. So a switch has only one Node WWN and multiple Port WWPN.

The general format is this: NODEWWN:PORTWWN

Partition (Zoning):

The brocade switch uses b/s architecture, and the remote client realizes the monitoring and configuration of the switch via the switch Ethernet management port. Before you configure the Java Runtime Environment JRE, first install it on the client.

Open the browser input FC switch IP, press ENTER will pop up the login dialog box, enter the user name and password, enter the configuration interface.

Click on the Zone admin to enter the zone configuration interface, in the zone configuration interface can see the switch's various port information and WWN network information.

Note: FC Fabric has multiple FC switch, each switch WWN, alias, zoning are synchronized, so on any switch operation can be.

FC SAN-Fibre Channel storage area networks