EMC CLARiiON CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage Systems Configuration Planning Guide
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Preface
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Chapter 1
About CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage
Systems
Introducing CX300, CX500, CX500i, and CX700 Storage
Systems
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1-2
Fibre Channel
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1-4
Fibre Channel Storage Components
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1-5
Storage Component (Storage System Enclosures)
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1-8
iSCSI
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1-10
iSCSI Storage Components
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1-10
Initiator Components
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1-11
LAN Components
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1-11
Target Components
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1-12
Types of Storage-System Installations
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1-13
About Switched Shared Storage and SANs (Storage Area
Networks)
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1-14
Storage Groups
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1-15
Chapter 2
RAID Types and Trade-offs
Introducing RAID
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2-2
Disk Striping
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2-2
Mirroring
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2-2
RAID Groups and LUNs
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2-3
RAID Types
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2-4
RAID 5 Group (Individual Access Array)
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2-4
RAID 3 Group (Parallel Access Array)
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2-5
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