September 2022
Beginner
736 pages
20h 54m
English
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Chapter 12
Describing VSANs and Fibre Channel Zoning
The SANs in the data centers are built to secure the communication between the servers (or the workloads running on the servers) and the storage systems. This is a very sensitive communication, because if data is lost, it is lost forever. If the data is not received in the correct order, it cannot be reassembled correctly, which means it’s lost in this case as well. Then there is also the challenge of which initiators are allowed to communicate with which targets. To solve these challenges, the Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) implements the use of Fibre Channel zones (or zoning). You will learn about this security mechanism in this chapter.
Another challenge is the size and the complexity of ...