Market and Technology Roadmap

							          FC-SCM
Simplified Configuration and
        Management
 Marketing Requirements Document
FC-SCM: Marketing Requirements
Document
•   FC-SCM Elevator Statement
    FC-SCM compliant devices allow departments or small and medium sized
    businesses without dedicated IT personnel and where proven storage
    reliability, performance, and scalability are vital to the business, to
    connect, configure, and manage a Fibre Channel SAN. FC-SCM devices
    have cost targets significantly less than enterprise FC devices and are
    available in the 2007 time frame. These FC-SCM SANs form a core part of
    the FCIA SMB strategy and the FC-SCM SANs connect to enterprise level
    SANs via a connectivity mechanism.
FC-SCM: Market Direction
•   The market for FC-SCM consists of
    – Small and medium businesses, plus departments of any business
      not connected to the SAN of the larger business
    – Those business units unable to have a dedicated IT staff
    – Those businesses needing high availability and/or high
      performance storage now, with scalability in the future
•   The FCIA will estimate the size and growth rate of this
    market
•   FC-SCM protects the enterprise market from encroachment
    from lower-end storage technologies
    – Provides a low-end starting point for FC
    – Enhances enterprise market by requiring FC-SCM connectivity
      through a connectivity mechanism
FC-SCM: Value Proposition
•   Market factors, realities and value propositions
    – Best $/Gb/s value available
    – Proven storage for business critical operation
    – Enterprise level availability in the presence of faults for businesses
      of all sizes
    – Future proofed
    – Capable of supporting regulatory compliance, e.g., Sarbanes-
      Oxley, et al
    – Businesses can avoid storage scalability problems
FC-SCM: General Concepts
•   SCM = Simplified Configuration and Management
•   Defines a certification program
•   Simplified feature set to optimize generic configurations
•   A profile – not a standard change
•   Defines default settings for all certified devices
•   A given default configuration, defines a maximum number
    of ports supporting servers, RAIDs, backup devices,
    switches, etc.
•   Limited to the equipment that will fit in a broom closet as
    this is the maximum that a non-IT person can manage
•   An FC-SCM SAN uses a common set of functions to allow
    wizard-based management, configuration and monitoring
FC-SCM: General Requirements
•   Market requirements
    – Ultra-simple to setup and manage
        • Common set of functions allowing wizard-based management,
          configuration and monitoring
    – Capable of supporting redundant Fibre Channel topologies
    – Seamless scalability
        • SAN Storage scalability within the bounds of FC-SCM
        • Connectivity mechanism to an Enterprise SAN
FC-SCM: Specific Requirements
•   Target audience
     –   Absolutely minimal training
     –   Non IT professional level
•   Scalability
     –   Single FC-SCM management domain per topology (A or B)
     –   The switch is envisioned as the CRU
     –   Maximum number of switches supported must not require IT expertise.
     –   Mechanism to determine the maximum port count that all elements in the FC-SCM
         support and a minimum requirement of number of ports in the topology that all FC-
         SCM elements support.
           •   TBD ports per FC-SCM fabric (should this be Servers & Storage devices?)
           •   TBD ports per FC-SCM SAN including redundancy
               (2 fabrics)
     –   Ports are defined as NX_Ports + FX_Ports
           •   NX_Ports and FX_Ports must be capable of operating in loop model
     –   When the number of ports exceeds the maximum number supported by the FC-SCM components,
         the system will predictably fail, indicating that the maximum number of ports has been exceeded
•   Migration path to an IT-Managed SAN
     –   Connectivity mechanism of FC-SCM SAN to Enterprise SAN
           •   This connectivity mechanism must be reversible, but not transparently
     –   No reduced functionality for the Enterprise SAN when connecting an FC-SCM SAN through a
         connectivity mechanism
     –   Connection to one Enterprise SAN from an FC-SCM SAN
     –   Connection to an Enterprise SAN shall accommodate SMI-S management via a connectivity
         mechanism
FC-SCM: Specific Requirements (cont.)
•   Self zoning
    – Automatic zoning with overlapping zones to isolate initiators
    – Wizards perform setup
•   Security
    – An SCM SAN becomes a security zone in and of itself
    – The connectivity mechanism performs security as needed or
      configured when extending to a non-SCM SAN

•   The following operating systems only shall be supported
    – Windows XP and newer
    – Windows Server 2003 and newer
    – Linux
FC-SCM: Implementation Possibilities
•   Possible connectivity mechanisms
    – Server
    – New product category
        • FC-enterprise to FC-SCM stand alone gateway
    – Vendor defined (e.g. in an enterprise switch)


•   Suggestion: Tap into existing profiles as much as possible
    – Military profiles