Sun Microsystems 3510 manual Full-Fabric SAN Configurations

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Full-Fabric SAN Configurations

FIGURE 8 Typical Full-Fabric SAN Configuration

TABLE 5 Configuration Overview for a Full-Fabric SAN

 

Small Configuration

Medium Configuration

Large Configuration

 

 

 

 

Number of Servers

2 to 4

2 to 14

2 to 62

RAID Enclosures

1

1

1

Expansion Units

As needed

As needed

As needed

Number of

2

2

2

Controllers

 

 

 

Number of Disks

12 or more

12 or more

12 or more

Cache Optimization

Random or sequential

Random or sequential

Random or sequent

RAID Levels

Application-dependent

Application-dependent

Application-dependent

Fibre connection

Point-to-point

Point-to-point

Point-to-point

option

 

 

 

Drive Configuration

Two LUNs with two global

Two LUNs with two global

Two LUNs with two global

 

spares

spares

spares

 

 

 

 

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Contents Sun StorEdge 3000 Family Best Practices Manual Please Recycle Contents Iv Sun StorEdge 3000 Family Best Practices Manual October Overview Best Practices for the Sun StorEdge 3510 FC ArrayDAS and SAN Storage Architectures IntroductionFibre Channel Protocols Fibre Channel ArchitectureLogical Drives Supported RAID LevelsCache Optimization Array Management Tools Direct-Attached Storage Saving and Restoring Configuration InformationStorage Area Networking Two DAS ConfigurationsScaling Capacity Increasing Capacity First StepsGeneral Configuration Considerations Single Server Dual Servers Quad Servers Non-Redundant DAS ConfigurationsNon-Redundant DAS Tips and Techniques Configuration Overview for Non-Redundant DASNon-Redundant DAS Setup Details Single Server Dual Servers Quad Servers High-Availability DAS ConfigurationsHigh-Availability DAS Tips and Techniques Configuration Overview for High Availability DASHigh-Availability DAS Setup Details Sun StorEdge 3000 Family Best Practices Manual October Full-Fabric SAN Configurations Full-Fabric SAN Tips and Techniques Full-Fabric SAN Setup DetailsSwitch General procedure for creating this configuration follows High-Performance SAN Configurations High-Performance SAN Tips and Techniques High-Performance SAN Setup DetailsServer Switch Summary