Storage White Papers

Cisco MDS 9000 Family Switch Architecture [pdf only, 736kb]
White Paper: Cisco MDS 9000 Family Switch Architecture

Cisco MDS 9000 Family Investment Protection [pdf only, 99kb]
White Paper: Cisco MDS 9000 Family Investment Protection

The Brocade Data Center Fabric [pdf only, 115kb]
This paper describes the key issues facing IT organizations today and explains how the Brocade Data Center Fabric (DCF) provides an architectural foundation and evolutionary strategy for transforming today’s IT infrastructures into next-generation data centers with reduced cost, increased flexibility, and minimized risk.

Introducing the Brocade Data Center Fabric Architecture: Challenges and Solutions in the Data Center [pdf only, 208kb]
Enterprise data centers are undergoing a transformation driven by the need to reduce costs and increase performance. The evolving data center fabric exploits developing virtualization technologies for a data- and application-driven solution that reduces complexity and enables end-to-end management on a common framework. This paper describes the necessary evolution of the data center to meet these challenges.

Adaptive Networking—Brocade's Advanced Data Center Fabric Technology [pdf only, 206kb]
Adaptive networking services will become essential as evolving data center fabrics collapse server-to-storage, server-to-server, and storage-to-storage connectivity onto a common network connecting virtualized devices.

Peta-Scale I/O with the Lustre File System [pdf only, 927kb]
Topics covered include scalable I/O, locking policies and algorithms to cope with scale, implications for recovery, and other scalability issues.

Information Management: Discovering the Business Value of Archived Information [pdf only, 104kb]
Information Management: Discovering the Business Value of Archived Information

Lustre File System Networking White Paper [pdf only, 320kb]
This paper provides information about Lustre networking (LNET) that can be used to plan cluster file system deployments for optimal performance and scalability.

Lustre File System: High-Performance Storage Architecture and Scalable Cluster File System [pdf only, 897kb]
This paper provides basic information about the Lustre file system. Section 1 discusses general characteristics and markets in which Lustre is strong.

Sun StorageTek 5800 System Architecture [pdf only, 1862kb]
Sun StorageTek 5800 System Architecture