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Qlogic SANbox 1400 Supplementary Manual

Qlogic sanbox 1400: supplementary guide
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Expanding the Connectivity and Value of Information Assets
Copyright © 2006, Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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  • Page 1 Expanding the Connectivity and Value of Information Assets Copyright © 2006, Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved ESG Lab Review Author: ™...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    n ... 3 w ... 4 w ... 11 x ... 12 The goal of the ESG Lab reports is to educate customers about specific storage-related products including storage systems, backup-to-disk solutions, storage management applications, backup/recovery software, storage virtualization platforms, etc. ESG Lab reports are not meant to replace the necessary evaluation process that end user customers should conduct.

  • Page 3: I N T R O D U C T I O N

    ESG Lab Review QLogic made its name in the IT industry as a trusted provider of Fibre Channel host bus adapters. Leveraging the market-leading strength and success of the adapter business, QLogic has expanded its product line significantly in recent years.

  • Page 4: Esg Lab Review

    SAN connectivity to a simulated remote site. And last, but not least, an entry- level SAN at the remote site was created using a SANbox 1400 switch and iSCSI adapter-enabled access to Fibre Channel storage served from the core of the storage network. All in all, the test bed provided an excellent means for illustrating the connectivity, data and network services provided by QLogic’s...

  • Page 5: T In N G C O N N E C T I V I T Y T O T H E E D G E

    The SANbox 9000 at the core was connected to a pair of SANbox 5600s and a SANbox 5200 towards the edge. An entry level ten port SANbox 1400 switch was used by a simulated workgroup performing video editing.
  • Page 6 IOMETER utility. The SANbox 1400 attached workgroup zone at the edge of the network was exercised by viewing a movie using Windows Media Player. The configuration and zone setup for all of the switches used during this phase of testing was managed from a single console using QLogic’s Enterprise Fabric Suite Manager...

  • Page 7: D A T Ta A S E R V I C E S I N T H E S T To O R A G E N E T W O R K

    • Server and storage consolidation. Troika Networks was acquired by QLogic for the ASIC technology at the heart of the SANbox 8000. The SANbox 8000 uses hardware-based acceleration and a non-blocking switch architecture to deliver data services at hardware-optimized speeds. In comparison to traditional appliance approaches where all data moves up to the CPU, the SANbox 8000 platform ensures that nearly all data flows are handled at the hardware level within ASICs.
  • Page 8 We began with a quick review of the SANbox 8202 configuration, as shown in Figure Six. Figure Six – The SANbox 8202 Console Storage Virtualization Manager (SVM) software from StoreAge was used to create and access a pair of virtual volumes on an IBM disk array – one for the database and another for the database log. The data and log volumes were placed in a consistency group and were migrated to the Infortrend disk array using StoreAge multiMirror software.

  • Page 9: S C A L A B L E H I G H S P E E D C L U S T E R I N G

    QLogic InfiniPath host channel adapters and switches provide a low latency, high bandwidth connection between servers in a cluster. Compared to the Fibre Channel technology that QLogic is well known for, these products use Infiniband for server switching instead of storage switching.

  • Page 10: S T To O R A G E R O U T I N G A N D E X T E N S I Io O N

    SANbox 9000 ultra-high density core switch was accessed from a simulated remote site during the ESG Lab review, as shown in Figure Eight. A windows server at the simulated remote site used a QLogic iSCSI adapter to provide remote access to an NTFS file system accessed as drive letter I. A file system copy of the program files directory from the C: drive in the remote server to the I: drive in the data center completed in a matter of minutes.

  • Page 11: E S G L A B V I E W

    Core” switches, iSCSI host adapters and InfinibBand host channel adapters and switches. Many might be surprised to learn that QLogic is using this expanded network connectivity layer as a platform for the delivery of higher level data and network services. For example, the SANbox 8000 platform which provides data services including online migrations is a powerful new services platform that was recently announced by QLogic.

  • Page 12: Appendix

    Enterprise Strategy Group ESG Lab Review Test Bed Configuration Details CORE P3, 1.4 GHz, 1 GB RAM, W2K3 Server, SP1 2.0.30 F/W: 4.0.0.18, Driver QLogic SCSI miniport 9.1.2.11 F/W: 5.0.0.31 F/W: 5.0.0.31 F/W: 6.2.0.8 F/W 1.1.7.4 QStorage SVM version 4.3 F/W: 2.0.5, iSCSI router mgr 2.0.30...

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