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    CCIE Data Center 

    Storage Networking

    Hardware Architecture

    What Makes Up a SAN?


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     – SAN Switches
     – Host Bus Adapters (HBAs)

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    Storage Arrays
    • Physical disk enclosures
     – Offers block level storage access to servers
     – Can be JBOD or RAID
     – Typically multiple levels of redundancy
    • Redundant power, disks, I/O controllers, etc.
    • SAN is not to be confused with DAS or NAS
     – Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
    • Server’s local physical disks
     – Network Attached Storage (NAS)
    • NFS & CIFS/SMB file shares
    • Typically support three interfaces
     – Fibre Channel (FC) – most common
     – iSCSI – low to mid-range arrays
     – Native FCoE – newer arrays

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    SAN Switches
    • Connect servers to storage
     – Traditionally FC to FC switches
     – Server is called the “initiator”
     – Storage is called the “target”
    • Like IP routers, can do protocol conversions
     – FC to iSCSI
     – FC to FCoE
     – FC to FCIP
    • Directors vs. Switches
     – Directors are just bigger switches
    • Think Catalyst 6509 vs. Catalyst 2960
     – Higher port density
     – Higher redundancy (power, supervisors, line cards)

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    Host Bus Adapters (HBAs)
    • NIC card for SAN
     – Connects servers and storage to SAN switches
    • Typically three types of HBAs
     – Fibre Channel HBAs
    • SAN traffic only
    • 1/2/4/8/16Gbps
     – iSCSI HBAs
    • 1/10Gbps LAN plus iSCSI hardware offload
     – FCoE Converged Network Adapter (CNA)
    • E.g. “Unified Fabric”
    • 10Gbps LAN plus FCoE hardware offload
    • Multiple generations of cards
     – More on this later…

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    Class Hardware Diagram

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    Nexus 7000 & FCoE
    • Nexus 7K is an Ethernet switch only
     – Does not support native FC like 5K
     – Does however support FCoE
    • N7K FCoE requirements
     – Supported only on F1 and F2 modules
    • F2 currently requires SUP 2/2E and 6.1(1)
     – Storage must live in its own VDC
    • Special “Storage” VDC
    • Like an MDS inside of N7K
    • More on this later 
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    Q&A

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