Information storage on the cloud: A survey of effective storage management system

Author

Katal, Avita ; Gupta, Niharika ; Sharma, Seepaj ; Goudar, R.H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. Eng., Graphic Era Univ., Dehradun, India

fYear

2012

fDate

16-18 March 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In this paper we have discussed about the need of effective information management, Storage area network (SAN). SAN is the hottest buzz word in the computer storage business today. It seems like every company with a storage product, from the smallest garage shop to the largest multi-billion dollar corporation, has a SAN strategy, along with all of the products that today´s business owners and IT managers absolutely need to run their business in a SAN environment. It is a high-speed network of storage elements, similar in form and function to a LAN that establishes direct and indirect connections between multiple servers and multiple storage elements. This paper covers the basics of Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (FC SAN), Internet Protocol Storage Area Network (IP SAN), concepts of Zoning and Logical unit number (LUN) masking. The comparison of various vendors EMC, IBM, HP that provide the services of SAN.

Keywords

Internet; cloud computing; optical fibre networks; protocols; storage area networks; storage management; EMC; HP; IBM; IT managers; Internet protocol storage area network; business owners; cloud; computer storage business; fibre channel storage area network; information management; information storage; logical unit number masking; multibillion dollar corporation; servers; storage management system; zoning concepts; Fabrics; IP networks; Optical switches; Protocols; Servers; Storage area networks; Arbitrated loop FC-AL; Fibre channel switched fabric(FC-SW); Host Bus Adapter (HBA); Logical Unit Number (LUN) Masking; Remote Mirroring; Storage area network (SAN)management software; Zoning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering and Systems (SCES), 2012 Students Conference on

Conference_Location

Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0456-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCES.2012.6199040

Filename

6199040