Storage

Area
Network
(SAN)
Fundamentals
iSCSI EMC CX3-10

Major features
Front view

Enclosure backplane and chasis hot-plug drives

The Vault
The first five drives of any
CLARiiON hold a special area
known as the vault. The cache
is dumped (written at high
speed) into the vault if a failure
threatens the systems ability to
protect cache. Thus vault disk
have less usable space than
other drives, and any drive
bound in a RAID group that
uses a vault disk is similary reduced in capicity.

Disk IDs
Hard drives are
identified by:
Bus + Enclosure + Disk

RAID Groups
An association of 2 to
16 drives. All disks in a
RAID group share the
same RAID type. LUNS
are partitioned from the
RAID group and span all
disks in the RAID group.

Logical Unit Number (LUN)

Hosts access storage using logical unit number,
which are exported by a
SCSI target. The actual
storage object is a logical unit (LU), but invariably LUs are referred to
as LUNs.

metaLUN
A virtual LUN object
built bt striping or concatentating multiple
LUN objects. A CLARiiON
base feature.

metaLUN 1
metaLUN 2
metaLUN 22 & 23

metaLUN 3

metaLUN 4

metaLUN 5

LOAD02
H:\
I:\
J:\
K:\

ML1, L996, L997

L17
L19
L7

L:\ L25

IT02
H:\
I:\
J:\
K:\

L10
L12
L22
L29

L:\ ML4, L987, L988, L989

Storage Groups

Major features
Rear view

Storage Processor (SP)

Navisphere view of
SP A and B

SP Management Ports

Disk Array Loop

Power and UPS Management

Storage Processor Enclosures (SPE)

LED Indicators

PRI and EXP

Power Distribution Units

(PDU)

iSCSI connections

iSCSI VLAN on Switch

SAN to Servers

Server iSCSI connection

sNIC, HBA, TOE Chip

NIC Order and Bindings

Configuring iSCSI connection in Windows