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Summary of Best Practices for Storage Area Networks
IBM Redbooks. SG24-7521. SAN Volume Controller: Best Practices and Performance
Guidelines
Brocade Data Center Best Practices Guide. GA-BP-300-00. Fabric Resiliency Best
Practices
Brocade Data Center Best Practices Guide. GA-BP-329-00. SAN Design and Best
Practices
Brocade Data Center Fabric Best Practices Guide. GA-BP-036-02. Cabling the Data
Center
Brocade Publications. 53-1000672-03. Performance User Manual
Brocade Publications. 53-0000350-04. LAN Guidelines For Brocade SilkWorm
Switches.
Brocade Publications. 53-0001573-01. Building and Scaling Brocade SAN Fabrics.
Brocade Publications. GA-RG-250-00. SAN Security: A Best Practices Guide.
Brocade White Paper Series. Secure SAN Zoning Best Practices.
Cisco Publications. OL-12518-01. Data Center High Availability Clusters Design Guide
Cisco Publications. OL-14856-01. Cisco MDS 9000 Family Cookbook for Cisco MDS
SAN-OS Release 3.1
Cisco Publication. OL-23396-01. Cisco MDS 9000 Family NX-OS Fabric Configuration
Guide
Cisco Systems White Papers. C11-330664-00. Intelligent Traffic Services with the
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Modules
Cisco Systems White Papers. ETMG 203154—LSK. Scalable Fabric Design —
Oversubscription And Density Best Practices.
EMC Engineering White Paper. EMC CLARiiON Best Practices for Fibre Channel
Storage.
HP Publications. AA-RW86D-TE. HP StorageWorks: SAN Design Reference Guide