144 Sun StorEdge Network FC Switch-8 and Switch-16 Installation and Configuration Guide • October 2001

FIGUREA-1 Software ArchitectureBlock Diagram

Switch
Fabric OS
Switch
Firmware
Mgmt/Diag Interfaces
(In-Band/Out-of-Band)

FC SWITCH

SUN SERVERS (Solaris 8 4/01)

StorEdge Network Foundation
Software (In Band)
Solaris SCSA
Framework
DLPI
SCSI Target
Drivers (ssd, st…) TCP/IP Streams Stack &
Modules
Layered Storage Drivers
(RDAC, SDS,…)
(libg_fc, liba5k, switchAPI,…)
Standard Applications
(format, cfgadm, mount, mkfs,…)
SAN/Storage Mgmt Software
(Component Manager, cfgadm,
luxadm) Diag/Monitoring Software
(StorTools, NWSAgent)
TCP/IP
Kernel
Modules/
and Drivers
for Out of
Band
Interfaces
(Out of
Band)
K
ernel
L
evel
User Level
Sun Storage Firmware (Specific to
type of storage) Mgmt/Diag Interfaces (Specific
to Storage)

SUN

STORAGE

FCP
QLC
FP/FCTL (Fibre Channel Transport Layer)
FCIP
StorEdge Traffic Manager