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SAN architecture document?
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| the_init 2006-11-24, 1:13 pm |
| Hi, all...
Can anybody tell me where to find the working of SAN details and
the complete functional details of the devices that are involved in it.
I mean the working of SAN and the complete detail of
how a client request server for a data --- then how server processes it
--- and how multipath details are handled in server --- and how it
communicates with the controllers -- and how controllers fetch for the
particular data from the collection of disks.
I searched it in google but I dint get.
Thanks.
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| On 24 Nov 2006 09:13:57 -0800, "the_init" <the.init@gmail.com> wrote:
>Can anybody tell me where to find the working of SAN details and
>the complete functional details of the devices that are involved in it.
>
>I mean the working of SAN and the complete detail of
>how a client request server for a data
<snip>
>I searched it in google but I dint get.
You can't have looked too hard...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_area_network
And if you really, really meant what you wrote about understanding how
a client requests data from a server, you can read about the Fibre
Channel Protocol here:
http://www.t10.org/drafts.htm#fcp-
This links to a draft of the ANSI FCP standard... but it's as near to
the standard as makes no different for the OP and hey, it's free.
There are updates to this also (FCP-2, 3 and 4). If you want or need
the actual ANSI standard docs they are available to buy.
HVB.
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| the_init 2006-11-25, 1:12 pm |
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Thanks, HVB
The details you have sent, cover the topic in depth.
I think I dint mention my doubt properly.
I need little abstract view of the things, like
How the client requests a server, and when server gets request from
multiple clients
then how it handles it. How the server communicates to the controller
and how the controller gets data from the disks. And what are the
softwares involved in this etc...
If all this is explained pictorially then it would be great help. If
you know any books on this please suggest. I need the things to be
explained in programmers view.
Thanks again.
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| Gunhaver05 2006-11-26, 7:13 pm |
| I would recommend checking out some of the tutorials at
http://www.techtionary.com for a basic view for what you are asking.
the_init wrote:
> Thanks, HVB
>
> The details you have sent, cover the topic in depth.
> I think I dint mention my doubt properly.
> I need little abstract view of the things, like
>
> How the client requests a server, and when server gets request from
> multiple clients
> then how it handles it. How the server communicates to the controller
> and how the controller gets data from the disks. And what are the
> softwares involved in this etc...
> If all this is explained pictorially then it would be great help. If
> you know any books on this please suggest. I need the things to be
> explained in programmers view.
>
> Thanks again.
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| iSCSI SAN MAN 2006-12-01, 1:17 am |
| http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstrac...45470.html?Open
long read but good homework or material for your homework.
the_init wrote:
> Hi, all...
>
> Can anybody tell me where to find the working of SAN details and
> the complete functional details of the devices that are involved in it.
>
> I mean the working of SAN and the complete detail of
> how a client request server for a data --- then how server processes it
> --- and how multipath details are handled in server --- and how it
> communicates with the controllers -- and how controllers fetch for the
> particular data from the collection of disks.
>
> I searched it in google but I dint get.
>
> Thanks.
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| Big Al 2007-01-30, 7:16 am |
| IBM has a very nice redbook about this:
http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/abs...45470.html?Open
"the_init" <the.init@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1164388437.078099.246870@h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi, all...
>
> Can anybody tell me where to find the working of SAN details and
> the complete functional details of the devices that are involved in it.
>
> I mean the working of SAN and the complete detail of
> how a client request server for a data --- then how server processes it
> --- and how multipath details are handled in server --- and how it
> communicates with the controllers -- and how controllers fetch for the
> particular data from the collection of disks.
>
> I searched it in google but I dint get.
>
> Thanks.
>
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