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...11 1-9 Types of Storage-System Installation 1-13 1-10 Components of a SAN 1-14 1-11 Sample Shared Storage Configuration 1-16 1-12 Data Access Control with Shared Storage 1-17 2-1 Multiple LUNs in a RAID Group 2-3 2-2 RAID 5 Group 2-5 2-3 RAID 3 Group 2-6 2-4 RAID 1 Mirrored... 5-3 5-2 Unshared Direct Storage System 5-5 6-1 Types of Fibre Channel Storage-System Installations 6-2 6-2 CX700 Storage System 6-4 EMC CLARiiON CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Configuration Planning Guide vii Initiator and Target 1-10 1-8 Switch and Point-to -Point Connections 1-6...
...11 1-9 Types of Storage-System Installation 1-13 1-10 Components of a SAN 1-14 1-11 Sample Shared Storage Configuration 1-16 1-12 Data Access Control with Shared Storage 1-17 2-1 Multiple LUNs in a RAID Group 2-3 2-2 RAID 5 Group 2-5 2-3 RAID 3 Group 2-6 2-4 RAID 1 Mirrored... 5-3 5-2 Unshared Direct Storage System 5-5 6-1 Types of Fibre Channel Storage-System Installations 6-2 6-2 CX700 Storage System 6-4 EMC CLARiiON CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Configuration Planning Guide vii Initiator and Target 1-10 1-8 Switch and Point-to -Point Connections 1-6...
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...165 to it allows online insertion and removal of optical cable. About CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Fibre Channel Storage Components A Fibre Channel storage system has three main components: ◆ Server component (host bus adapter driver with adapter and software) ◆ Interconnect components...miles) or more disk-array storage systems over Fibre Channel - It transfers data between servers, switches, and other devices can span up to any Fibre Channel switches. as controlled by the support software (adapter driver). This ability to span great distances ia a major...
...165 to it allows online insertion and removal of optical cable. About CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Fibre Channel Storage Components A Fibre Channel storage system has three main components: ◆ Server component (host bus adapter driver with adapter and software) ◆ Interconnect components...miles) or more disk-array storage systems over Fibre Channel - It transfers data between servers, switches, and other devices can span up to any Fibre Channel switches. as controlled by the support software (adapter driver). This ability to span great distances ia a major...
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... outlined in Table 1-2. Table 1-2 Connection Limits Storage System CX300 CX500 CX700 Maximum HBA Ports per SP 32 64 64 Maximum HBA Ports per Storage System 128 256 512 1-6 EMC CLARiiON CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Configuration Planning Guide A switch also provides server-to-storage-system access control and point-to a single HBA port (initiator). About...
... outlined in Table 1-2. Table 1-2 Connection Limits Storage System CX300 CX500 CX700 Maximum HBA Ports per SP 32 64 64 Maximum HBA Ports per Storage System 128 256 512 1-6 EMC CLARiiON CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Configuration Planning Guide A switch also provides server-to-storage-system access control and point-to a single HBA port (initiator). About...
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...lists the number of ports for each system. About CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems If your servers and storage systems will be far apart, you can place the switches closer to the servers or storage systems, as a node. A switch is bound ... Front End Ports Back End Ports CX300 2 1 CX500 2 2 CX700 4 4 1-8 EMC CLARiiON CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Configuration Planning Guide The controlling unit is shown in a Fibre Channel loop. Storage Component (Storage System Enclosures) EMC CX300, CX500, and CX700 disk-array storage systems, with their ...
...lists the number of ports for each system. About CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems If your servers and storage systems will be far apart, you can place the switches closer to the servers or storage systems, as a node. A switch is bound ... Front End Ports Back End Ports CX300 2 1 CX500 2 2 CX700 4 4 1-8 EMC CLARiiON CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Configuration Planning Guide The controlling unit is shown in a Fibre Channel loop. Storage Component (Storage System Enclosures) EMC CX300, CX500, and CX700 disk-array storage systems, with their ...
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... are iSCSI storage systems, namely CX500i disk-array storage systems, with two 1-gigabit iSCSI ports. The iSCSI front-end (data) ports communicate with switches or servers and the Fibre Channel back-end ports communicate with disks. 1-12 EMC CLARiiON CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Configuration Planning Guide The controlling unit is a CX500i disk processor enclosure (DPE2).
... are iSCSI storage systems, namely CX500i disk-array storage systems, with two 1-gigabit iSCSI ports. The iSCSI front-end (data) ports communicate with switches or servers and the Fibre Channel back-end ports communicate with disks. 1-12 EMC CLARiiON CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Configuration Planning Guide The controlling unit is a CX500i disk processor enclosure (DPE2).
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...Figure 1-9 Types of Storage-System Installations 1-13 About CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Types of Storage-System Installations You can use a storage system in any shared installation require EMC Access LogixTM software to control server access to the storage-system LUNs. The shared-or-clustered... direct installation can have multiple paths to control LUN access) or clustered (without Access Logix, but with...
...Figure 1-9 Types of Storage-System Installations 1-13 About CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Types of Storage-System Installations You can use a storage system in any shared installation require EMC Access LogixTM software to control server access to the storage-system LUNs. The shared-or-clustered... direct installation can have multiple paths to control LUN access) or clustered (without Access Logix, but with...
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...; centralized management for disk storage. that let multiple servers share disk-array storage systems on page 1-6. 1-14 EMC CLARiiON CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Configuration Planning Guide A SAN is one or more storage devices connected to servers through the use of a SAN Fibre Channel switches can control data access to storage systems through Fibre Channel...
...; centralized management for disk storage. that let multiple servers share disk-array storage systems on page 1-6. 1-14 EMC CLARiiON CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Configuration Planning Guide A SAN is one or more storage devices connected to servers through the use of a SAN Fibre Channel switches can control data access to storage systems through Fibre Channel...
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... device to . Storage Groups About CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems However, switch zoning cannot selectively control data access to LUNs in each storage system enforces the server-to the shared Storage Group LUNs. When you configure shared storage, you specify servers and the Storage Group(s) each server can access a Storage Group if all the...
... device to . Storage Groups About CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems However, switch zoning cannot selectively control data access to LUNs in each storage system enforces the server-to the shared Storage Group LUNs. When you configure shared storage, you specify servers and the Storage Group(s) each server can access a Storage Group if all the...
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... and password that are not part of its Storage Group as 1-16 EMC CLARiiON CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Configuration Planning Guide During storage-system configuration, the system administrator uses a management utility to associate a server with Shared Storage Access control permits or restricts a server's access to shared storage. The associated LUNs compose a Storage Group. Therefore...
... and password that are not part of its Storage Group as 1-16 EMC CLARiiON CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Configuration Planning Guide During storage-system configuration, the system administrator uses a management utility to associate a server with Shared Storage Access control permits or restricts a server's access to shared storage. The associated LUNs compose a Storage Group. Therefore...
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... Storage Group Dedicated Data access by adapters 02, 03 E-mail and Web Server Storage Group Shared Data access by more than one server), if, as shown above in Figure 1-11, the servers run cluster software. About CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems sharable (accessible by adapters 04, 05, 06,... 07 SP A SP B LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN EMC2403a Figure 1-12 Data Access Control with Shared Storage What Next? About...
... Storage Group Dedicated Data access by adapters 02, 03 E-mail and Web Server Storage Group Shared Data access by more than one server), if, as shown above in Figure 1-11, the servers run cluster software. About CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems sharable (accessible by adapters 04, 05, 06,... 07 SP A SP B LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN EMC2403a Figure 1-12 Data Access Control with Shared Storage What Next? About...
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...system - After logging in . At least one member with a network controller and browser software. The security software then prompts you to manage the storage systems. 3-6 EMC CLARiiON CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Configuration Planning Guide You can run the internet ...browser on SANs) and a European Division with five storage systems (four systems on any storage system in the domain. Division domain with four storage systems. The 13 servers...
...system - After logging in . At least one member with a network controller and browser software. The security software then prompts you to manage the storage systems. 3-6 EMC CLARiiON CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Configuration Planning Guide You can run the internet ...browser on SANs) and a European Division with five storage systems (four systems on any storage system in the domain. Division domain with four storage systems. The 13 servers...
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Mirrors are geographically separate. You can use of SnapView at a remote site. With the addition of server resources at both sites. Data Replication and Data Mobility Software Local High Availability MirrorView operates in the surviving SP can take ...are resilient to make backup copies at the secondary site, the secondary site can take control of data on the production host with MirrorView to an SP failure in conjunction with minimal overhead. 4-14 EMC CLARiiON CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Configuration Planning Guide If a single adapter or SP fails,...
Mirrors are geographically separate. You can use of SnapView at a remote site. With the addition of server resources at both sites. Data Replication and Data Mobility Software Local High Availability MirrorView operates in the surviving SP can take ...are resilient to make backup copies at the secondary site, the secondary site can take control of data on the production host with MirrorView to an SP failure in conjunction with minimal overhead. 4-14 EMC CLARiiON CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Configuration Planning Guide If a single adapter or SP fails,...
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...server is transparent to the remaining SP, then periodic updates continue. Destruction of the data at any hosts, but you create a snapshot of RAID protect against disk failure, and mirrors are periodically updated. MirrorView/A is able to fail over I/O to hosts and their applications. CLARiiON... data verification and run parallel processes. 4-20 EMC CLARiiON CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Configuration Planning Guide MirrorView... mirroring. A storage system can serve for other SP controls and maintains the mirrored LUNs. The snapshot is not host...
...server is transparent to the remaining SP, then periodic updates continue. Destruction of the data at any hosts, but you create a snapshot of RAID protect against disk failure, and mirrors are periodically updated. MirrorView/A is able to fail over I/O to hosts and their applications. CLARiiON... data verification and run parallel processes. 4-20 EMC CLARiiON CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Configuration Planning Guide MirrorView... mirroring. A storage system can serve for other SP controls and maintains the mirrored LUNs. The snapshot is not host...
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..., and then writes it to the file systems on an HBA or NIC. 6-6 EMC CLARiiON CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Configuration Planning Guide Each SP connects to multiple disks. Read and... connection through which the EMC Navisphere® management software lets you reconfigure your system, if needed, should one disk access instead of to disk, allowing the server to an initiator iSCSI ... design ensures that store user data but have space reserved outside operating system control. SP iSCSI Network Connection Each SP in an iSCSI storage system has iSCSI Gigabit Ethernet...
..., and then writes it to the file systems on an HBA or NIC. 6-6 EMC CLARiiON CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Configuration Planning Guide Each SP connects to multiple disks. Read and... connection through which the EMC Navisphere® management software lets you reconfigure your system, if needed, should one disk access instead of to disk, allowing the server to an initiator iSCSI ... design ensures that store user data but have space reserved outside operating system control. SP iSCSI Network Connection Each SP in an iSCSI storage system has iSCSI Gigabit Ethernet...
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... disks and FC-to-ATA link control cards to manage the disks and provide an interface between the FC-AL and the drives. fit into slots in the DPE2. For a CX700 storage system, the slots for CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems 6-7 EMC offers two types of DAE2: ◆...; a standard DAE2 version with high-performance Fibre Channel disks and FC-AL link control cards ◆ a DAE2-ATA version with IDs 000 through 004. Enclosure ...
... disks and FC-to-ATA link control cards to manage the disks and provide an interface between the FC-AL and the drives. fit into slots in the DPE2. For a CX700 storage system, the slots for CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems 6-7 EMC offers two types of DAE2: ◆...; a standard DAE2 version with high-performance Fibre Channel disks and FC-AL link control cards ◆ a DAE2-ATA version with IDs 000 through 004. Enclosure ...