Storage area networking Sample Implementation Images

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There are more than 40 article or blog posts on this blog if u start reading all previous posts. But many visitors asked for some sample implementation images or any images to make the understanding of Storage & SAN easy. So some good Storage images are listed below.


Components:
The SAN components in the above image are listed below

- FC Storage Arrays (x2); each configured with
- 3U chassis with dual FC, hot-swap fans and power supplies
- 16 x 250GB SATA hot-swap drives

- FC Storage Array (x1)
- 3U chassis with dual FC, hot-swap fans and power supplies
- 16 x 500GB SATA II hot-swap drives

- SCSI Storage Arrays (x2); each configured with
- 2U chassis with dual Ultra160 SCSI, hot-swap fans, power supplies
- 12 x 72GB SCA SCSI hot-swap drives

- Tape Backup
- Sun StorEdge L25 Tape Library
- 2 x HP Ultrium-2 SCSI LTO2 drives
- 1 x Sun FC420 (ATTO FibreBridge) Internal SCSI<->FC Bridge

- SAN Fabric
- Q-Logic SanBox 5200 Fibre Channel Switch (x2); each configured with
- 16 2GB FC ports
- 4 10GB stacking ports
- 11 x Q-Logic QLA2340 64-bit HBAs

- SCSI to FC conversion
- ATTO FibrBridge 4500
- 3 x 1GB FC ports
- 4 x Ultra160 SCSI

This SAN is centrally managed also provisioned from the control server via java based SAN Manager and RAIDwatch software which comes bundled with the hardware.

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