Cover -- Resilient Storage Networking -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Why Build Resilient Networks? -- Chapter 1. Importance of Information -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 Importance and reliability of information -- 1.3 Types of information and data -- 1.4 Information, data, and storage life-cycle management (xLM) -- 1.5 Threats and requirements for data protection -- 1.6 Maintaining information accessibility -- 1.7 Chapter summary -- Chapter 2. Data Storage Fundamentals -- 2.1 Overview -- 2.2 How data is accessed and organized -- 2.3 Chapter summary -- Part II: Networking with Your Storage -- Chapter 3. Networking with Your Storage -- 3.1 Overview -- 3.2 Networks and I/O channels -- 3.3 Relationships between enterprise communications and the data center -- 3.4 Enterprise messaging network usage -- 3.5 Deterministic behavior -- 3.6 I/O busses and paths -- 3.7 Data access infrastructures -- 3.8 Accessing storage networks -- 3.9 Network storage interfaces -- 3.10 Networks for storage -- 3.11 Storage and data sharing -- 3.12 Storage networking access models -- 3.13 Chapter summary -- Chapter 4. Storage and I/O Networks -- 4.1 Overview -- 4.2 Storage networking interfaces -- 4.3 Performance and bandwidth -- 4.4 Storage and I/O interface -- 4.5 Upper-level protocols for storage networking -- 4.6 Storage and networking interfaces -- 4.7 Chapter summary -- Chapter 5. Fiber-Optic Essentials -- 5.1 Overview -- 5.2 Fiber-optic essentials -- 5.3 Fiber-optic basics -- 5.4 Fiber-optic cabling types -- 5.5 A word about wavelengths -- 5.6 Fiber-optic connectors and transceivers -- 5.7 Fiber-optic distance and performance topics -- 5.8 Link loss and power budgets (db loss) -- 5.9 Protocol droop -- 5.10 Chapter summary -- Chapter 6. Metropolitan and Wide Area Storage Networks -- 6.1 Overview -- 6.2 Metropolitan and wide area networking -- 6.3 Storage over IP for distance -- 6.4 Wave division multiplexing -- 6.5 Time division multiplexing -- 6.6 When to utilize multiplexing -- 6.7 Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) -- 6.8 SONET/SDH -- 6.9 Public switched telephone network -- 6.10 Inverse multiplexing -- 6.11 Free space optics and wireless communication -- 6.12 Chapter summary -- Chapter 7. Storage Networking Devices -- 7.1 Overview -- 7.2 Storage networking devices -- 7.3 Networking components -- 7.4 Chapter summary -- Part III: Resilient Storage Networks -- Chapte 8. Storage Network Design -- 8.1 Overview -- 8.2 Getting started -- 8.3 Storage networking design influences -- 8.4 Which type of storage network is right for you? -- 8.5 Know your objectives and requirements -- 8.6 Storage network design -- 8.7 The design process -- 8.8 Chapter summary -- Chapte 9. Storage Networking Topologies -- 9.1 Overview -- 9.2 Storage networking topologies -- 9&#