Building SANs with brocade fibre channel fabric switches

In the early 1980s, direct-attach disk storage through interconnects such as Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI) was the standard way to connect to data. The first book to focus on Brocade products - an inovative tecnology company to watch out for! Brocade Switches provide the intelligent architecture that connects Storage Area Networks (SANs) to Local Area Networks and Wide Area Networks. Brocade switches provide the same functionality to Storage Area Networks as Cisco switches provide to the Internet - Brocade Communications, Inc is the dominant company in this rapidly expanding market. Building SANs with Brocade Fibre Channel Fabric Switches is written for system administrators who are designing, building, and maintaining Storage Area Networks with Brocade fibre switches. The book provides the reader with all of the techniques necessary to integrate fibre-based switches with an IP-based network. The first vendor-specific book on configuring industry standard technologies Practical approach; competitive books are mostly theoretical IT Professionals must know how to design and build a SAN. Often over 50% of IT budgets are devoted to storage. Fibre-switched SANs are the market standard Annotation Building SANs with Brocade Fibre Channel Fabric Switches is a practical guide to all of the techniques necessary to integrate fibre-based switches to an IP-based network. It begins with a detailed analysis of the benefits of implementing a SAN and an examination of the hardware and bandwidth requirements. From there, it proceeds to a discussion of the Brocade SilkWorm series of fibre channel switches and how the various switches are configured to connect a SAN with existing LANs Brocade Switches provide the intelligent architecture that connects Storage Area Networks (SANs) to Local Area Networks and Wide Area Networks. This title is useful for system administrators who are designing, building, and maintaining Storage Area Networks with Brocade fibre switches.