FW V06.XX/HAFM SW V08.02.00 HP StorageWorks SAN High Availability Planning Guide (AA-RS2DD-TE, July 2004)
Table Of Contents
- SAN HA Planning Guide
- Contents
- About this Guide
- Introduction to HP Fibre Channel Products
- Product Management
- Planning Considerations for Fibre Channel Topologies
- Fibre Channel Topologies
- Planning for Point-to-Point Connectivity
- Characteristics of Arbitrated Loop Operation
- Planning for Private Arbitrated Loop Connectivity
- Planning for Fabric-Attached Loop Connectivity
- Planning for Multi-Switch Fabric Support
- Fabric Topologies
- Planning a Fibre Channel Fabric Topology
- Fabric Topology Design Considerations
- FICON Cascading
- Physical Planning Considerations
- Port Connectivity and Fiber-Optic Cabling
- HAFM Appliance, LAN, and Remote Access Support
- Inband Management Access (Optional)
- Security Provisions
- Optional Features
- Configuration Planning Tasks
- Task 1: Prepare a Site Plan
- Task 2: Plan Fibre Channel Cable Routing
- Task 3: Consider Interoperability with Fabric Elements and End Devices
- Task 4: Plan Console Management Support
- Task 5: Plan Ethernet Access
- Task 6: Plan Network Addresses
- Task 7: Plan SNMP Support (Optional)
- Task 8: Plan E-Mail Notification (Optional)
- Task 9: Establish Product and HAFM Appliance Security Measures
- Task 10: Plan Phone Connections
- Task 11: Diagram the Planned Configuration
- Task 12: Assign Port Names and Nicknames
- Task 13: Complete the Planning Worksheet
- Task 14: Plan AC Power
- Task 15: Plan a Multi-Switch Fabric (Optional)
- Task 16: Plan Zone Sets for Multiple Products (Optional)
- Index
Product Management
47SAN High Availability Planning Guide
Product Firmware
Director or edge switch firmware provides services that manage and maintain
Fibre Channel connections between ports. Although the product hardware
transmits Fibre Channel frames between source and destination ports, the
firmware maintains routing tables required by the hardware to perform these
switching functions. Product firmware also provides functions for system
configuration, control, maintenance, and redundancy management, including:
■ System Management Services — This function configures, controls, and
monitors director and switch operation. The subsystem:
— Centrally manages all configuration and status information.
— Manages network connections from the HAFM appliance.
— Implements a simple network management protocol (SNMP) agent to
allow access by external SNMP managers using the Fibre Channel Fabric
Element management information base (MIB), standard Transmission
Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) MIB-II definition, or
product-specific MIB.
■ Fabric Services — This function supports the fabric controller (login server)
and name server. For the director, fabric services also implements a
replication manager that synchronizes node port (N_Port) registration
databases between redundant control processor (CTP) cards and allows
transparent CTP failover.
■ Fibre Port Services — This function provides a physical driver for hardware
components, including:
— Director 2/64 universal port module (UPM) cards and serial crossbar
(SBAR) assemblies.
— Edge Switch 2/16 and Edge Switch 2/32 fiber-optic ports.
■ Fibre Channel Protocol Services — This function provides the Fibre
Channel transport logic that allows upper layer protocols used by fabric
services to communicate with devices attached to fiber-optic ports.
■ Network Services — This function provides TCP/IP transport layers to
access management service subsystems from attached management clients.
These clients include the HAFM appliance or an SNMP management station.
■ Application Services — This function supports all software subsystems for
system initialization, logging, tracing, debugging, and communicating with
the RS-232 maintenance port.