San Components - IBM TotalStorage DS300 Best Practices Manual

Storage
Servers
Storage Area Network
Figure 1-2 SAN versus NAS

1.4 SAN components

Fibre Channel is the predominant architecture upon which most SAN
implementations are built, with FICON® as the standard protocol for z/OS®
systems, and FCP as the standard protocol for open systems. The SAN
components described in the following sections are Fibre Channel-based, and
are shown in Figure 1-3 on page 8.
Traditional Storage Direct Attached
Server
SAN
LAN
Clients
Chapter 1. Storage Area Networks (SAN) overview
Storage
NAS
File Server
Appliance
LAN
Clients
Network Attached Storage
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