ATTO Technology ATTO FibreBridge 2350C, Инструкция по установке и эксплуатации

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ATTO Technology Inc. FibreBridge Installation and Operation Manual
1.0 Installing the ATTO FibreBridge
The ATTO FibreBridge family of products provides Fibre Channel-to-SCSI bridges as standard PCI
boards, stand alone enclosures that can be fitted for rack mount integration, or desktop units, depending
on the model and your needs.
Fibre Channel is a serial communications
technology designed to transfer large amounts of
data between a variety of hardware systems over
long distances. It is a key technology for
applications that require shared, high bandwidth
access to storage.
Fibre Channel provides a logical point-to point
serial channel for the transfer of data between a
buffer at a source device and a buffer at a
destination device. It moves buffer contents from
one port to another, without regard to the format
or meaning of the data, so different upper level
protocols are able to run over Fibre Channel
hardware.
The Fibre Channel architecture is structured as a
hierarchical set of protocol layers. Defined within
these layers are rules for signal interfaces, serial
encoding and decoding, error control, frame
format and communications protocols.
All ATTO FibreBridge
TM
models can be used in a
SAN (Storage Area Network) to connect a variety
of Fibre Channel and SCSI devices to meet your
needs.
A SAN is a shared storage architecture connecting
computers and storage devices for online data
access. Each connected system can directly access
any attached storage device. Storage devices
could include RAID, tape backup, tape library,
CD-ROM library or JBOD.
SANs maintain greater fault tolerance and load
balancing by supporting server clustering and
failover (the ability for one server to take over for
another in the event of a failure).
The ATTO FibreBridge provides the interface
between SCSI and Fibre Channel resources in
SANs. Possible configurations depend upon your
current hardware and what you need to do.
The ATTO FibreBridge family of products shares
common configuration options and functions to
provide the most versatile connectivity options
available. Each product has been engineered to
address specific customer needs. New capabilities
are integrated into products throughout the
FibreBridge family as much as possible, requiring
only an upgrade of firmware to incorporate them
into your SAN (see
Updating firmware on page
79 ). To make sure you have the most up-to-date
version of the firmware, visit the ATTO
Technology website,
www.attotech.com
.
All ATTO FibreBridge models are operating
system independent and include full duplex mode,
Class 2 transfers and direct fabric connect
capabilities.