存储技术基础交流.ppt

* * * * Just go over the rules from the slide. Emphasize Single HBA zoning and WWN zoning. * * Now we will discuss, more indepth, the issues imvolved with single HBA zoning. A single HBA zone consists of a single host HBA port and one or more Symmetrix FA ports. It is important to note that a port can reside in multiple zones which provides the ability to map a single FA port into multiple single HBA zones. This will allow multiple hosts to share a single Symmetrix port. Currently, an entire zone must reside on a single director. Zoning is a switch function that allows devices within the fabric to be segmented into groups that can communicate with each other. The zoning implementation in the ED-1032 is based on the ANSI standard Simple Name Services standard. When a device logs into a fabric, it is registered by the name server in the director. A port that is utilizing SCSI FCP protocol will be registered as such in the name server. When a port logs into the fabric, it goes through a device discovery process with other devices registered as SCSI FCP in the name server. The zoning function controls this process by only letting ports in the same zone establish these link level services. Single HBA zoning best simulates a single initiator SCSI environment . This will reduce the reliability concerns that can be raised when mixing driver revision levels, HBA types and heterogeneous servers on the same fabric. Due to the lack of inter-director links in release 1 of Connectrix, zones are limited to a single switch. * This animated slide illustrates the challenge with using LUN mapping in an environment Each host has its own database that maps or controls access to the storage. The good thing about this is that it is storage indifferent but it does have some problems. How are the changes propagated? It would have to be on a server by server basis. Veritas has addressed this problem by its product SAN Point Control. However this has its own problems. This serv