1. “Local Area Networks” - Gerd Keiser Copyright © 2003 - The McGraw-Hill Companies srl Local Area Networks Gerd Keiser

2. “Local Area Networks” - Gerd Keiser Copyright © 2003 - The McGraw-Hill Companies srl Chapter Nine Fibre Channels and SANs

3. “Local Area Networks” - Gerd Keiser Copyright © 2003 - The McGraw-Hill Companies srl A SAN connects computing entities and storage devices Figure 9.1

4. “Local Area Networks” - Gerd Keiser Copyright © 2003 - The McGraw-Hill Companies srl Typical storage applications using Fibre Channel Figure 9.2

5. “Local Area Networks” - Gerd Keiser Copyright © 2003 - The McGraw-Hill Companies srl Backup/recovery facilities must be outside threat radius Figure 9.3

6. “Local Area Networks” - Gerd Keiser Copyright © 2003 - The McGraw-Hill Companies srl Simple example of an input/output (I/O) channel Figure 9.4

7. “Local Area Networks” - Gerd Keiser Copyright © 2003 - The McGraw-Hill Companies srl The concept of N_Ports and F_Ports in Fibre Channel Figure 9.5

8. “Local Area Networks” - Gerd Keiser Copyright © 2003 - The McGraw-Hill Companies srl FL_Ports and NL_Ports in a FC loop topology Figure 9.6

9. “Local Area Networks” - Gerd Keiser Copyright © 2003 - The McGraw-Hill Companies srl Server system communicating with large storage subsystem Figure 9.7

10. “Local Area Networks” - Gerd Keiser Copyright © 2003 - The McGraw-Hill Companies srl FC expands on the two-layer PHY and MAC concept Figure 9.8

11. “Local Area Networks” - Gerd Keiser Copyright © 2003 - The McGraw-Hill Companies srl The composition of a Fibre Channel frame Figure 9.9

12. “Local Area Networks” - Gerd Keiser Copyright © 2003 - The McGraw-Hill Companies srl Sending block-level SCSI data over an IP network Figure 9.10

13. “Local Area Networks” - Gerd Keiser Copyright © 2003 - The McGraw-Hill Companies srl Sending block-level SCSI data over an Ethernet network Figure 9.11