Specifications

DATA CENTER BEST PRACTICES
SAN Design and Best Practices 4 of 84
Design Guidelines .............................................................................................................................. 53
Monitoring ......................................................................................................................................... 54
SCALABILITY AND PERFORMANCE ............................................................................................................. 54
SUPPORTABILITY ...................................................................................................................................... 55
Firmware Upgrade Considerations ....................................................................................................... 56
NPIV AND THE BROCADE ACCESS GATEWAY .............................................................................................. 56
Benets of the Brocade Access Gateway ............................................................................................. 57
Constraints ....................................................................................................................................... 58
Design Guidelines .............................................................................................................................. 58
Monitoring ......................................................................................................................................... 58
Maintenance ..................................................................................................................................... 59
BACKUP AND RESTORE ........................................................................................................................... 59
Determining SAN Bandwidth for Backups ............................................................................................. 59
Improving the Backup Infrastructure .................................................................................................... 60
STORAGE ................................................................................................................................................. 61
Design Guidelines .............................................................................................................................. 61
Monitoring ......................................................................................................................................... 61
Storage Virtualization ......................................................................................................................... 61
Design Guidelines .............................................................................................................................. 62
Monitoring ......................................................................................................................................... 62
SECURITY ................................................................................................................................................ 63
Zoning: Controlling Device Communication ........................................................................................... 63
Zone Management: Dynamic Fabric Provisioning (DFP) .................................................................... 63
Zone Management: Duplicate WWNs ............................................................................................. 63
Role-Based Access Controls (RBACs) ................................................................................................... 64
Access Control Lists (ACLs) ................................................................................................................ 64
SCC Policy................................................................................................................................... 64
DCC Policy .................................................................................................................................. 65
FCS Policy ................................................................................................................................... 65
IP Filter ....................................................................................................................................... 65
Authentication Protocols............................................................................................................... 65
Policy Database Distribution ............................................................................................................... 65
CAPACITY PLANNING ................................................................................................................................. 66
Gathering Requirements ..................................................................................................................... 66
Application Owners ...................................................................................................................... 66
Server and Storage Administrators ................................................................................................ 66
SAN Administrator: General .......................................................................................................... 67
SAN Administrator: Backup and Restore ........................................................................................ 67
Facilities ............................................................................................................................................ 68
Finance ............................................................................................................................................. 68
TOOLS FOR GATHERING DATA ................................................................................................................... 69
Brocade SAN Health ........................................................................................................................... 69
Power Calculator ................................................................................................................................ 69