WO2006039347A2 - Method and system for transferring data directly between storage devices in a storage area network - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to storage area networks, and more particularly to transferring data between storage devices using a Fibre Channel switch.
- SANs Storage area networks
- host systems that include computer systems, servers etc.
- controllers/adapters that include computer systems, servers etc.
- Host systems often communicate with storage systems via a host bus adapter ("HBA", may also be referred to as a “controller” and/or “adapter”) using an interface, for example, the "PCI" bus interface.
- HBA host bus adapter
- PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
- Figure IA shows a block diagram with a host system 10 having a HBA 11 coupled to a Fibre Channel switch 12.
- Switch 12 is also coupled to storage system 14 and 20.
- Storage system 14 includes HBA 13 and is coupled to storage devices 15, 16 and 17.
- Storage system 20 with HBA 21 is coupled to storage devices 18 and 19.
- the term storage device in this context includes, disk, tape drives or any other media used for storing electronic information.
- Host system 10 typically includes several functional components. These components may include a central processing unit (CPU) , main memory, input/output ("I/O") devices (not shown) , read only memory, and streaming storage devices (for example, tape drives) .
- CPU central processing unit
- main memory main memory
- I/O input/output
- read only memory main memory
- streaming storage devices for example, tape drives
- SCSI FCP SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol
- Fibre Channel is a set of American National Standard Institute (ANSI) standards, which provide a serial transmission protocol for storage and network protocols such as HIPPI, SCSI, IP, ATM and others. Fibre Channel provides an input/output interface to meet the requirements of both channel and network users.
- ANSI American National Standard Institute
- Fibre Channel supports three different topologies: point-to-point, arbitrated loop and Fibre
- the point-to-point topology attaches two devices directly.
- the arbitrated loop topology attaches devices in a loop.
- the Fibre Channel fabric topology attaches host systems directly to a fabric, which are then connected to multiple devices.
- Fibre Channel fabric topology allows several media types to be interconnected.
- Fibre Channel In Fibre Channel, a path is established between two nodes where the path's primary task is to transport data from one point to another at high speed with low latency, performing only simple error detection in hardware.
- Fibre Channel fabric devices include a node port or "N_Port" that manages fabric connections.
- the N_port establishes a connection to a fabric element
- Fabric elements include the intelligence to handle routing, error detection, recovery, and similar management functions.
- a Fibre Channel switch (for example, 12) is a multi-port device where each port manages a simple point-to-point connection between itself and its attached system. Each port can be attached to a server, peripheral, I/O subsystem, bridge, hub, router, or even another switch.
- a switch receives messages from one port and automatically routes it to another port. Multiple calls or data transfers happen concurrently through the multi-port Fibre Channel switch.
- Fibre Channel switches use memory buffers to hold frames received and sent across a network. Associated with these buffers are credits, which are the number of frames that a buffer can hold per fabric port.
- Fibre Channel storage devices using the SCSI FCP protocol typically use the client/server model.
- the client is a host system with an HBA (an "Initiator") such as a file server that issues a read or write command to a "Target".
- the Target may be a disk array that responds to the client request.
- Most storage devices such as disk drives or tape drives are SCSI target devices.
- Initiator devices (usually host bus adapters on server computers) start all IO operations.
- backing up data, or any operation where large amounts of data is sent from one storage device to another usually involves a server (host 10) reading data from one storage device (for example, disk 18) to the server, then writing it to the destination storage device (for example, disk 15) . This operation is slow and inefficient.
- a method for performing a copy operation between storage devices coupled to a Fibre Channel switch element includes, initiating a write operation with a destination target storage device, wherein the Fibre Channel switch initiates the write operation and sets a source address of a source storage device from where data is to be copied; receiving a response from the destination storage device wherein the response includes a D_ID for the source storage device; routing the response from the destination storage device to a switch processor; initiating a read command with the source storage device; and substituting a RX_ID in the response received from the destination storage device so that the source storage device receives an expected RX_ID.
- a method for performing a copy operation between storage devices coupled to a Fibre Channel switch element includes, receiving a user command to copy data from a source storage device to a destination storage device, wherein the Fibre Channel switch receives the user command and controls the copying operation such that the Fibre Channel switch appears to the source storage device as the destination storage device, and to the destination storage device the Fibre Channel switch appears to be the source storage device.
- the Fibre Channel switch acts as a SCSI initiator and initiates a write operation for the destination storage device and initiates a read operation for the source storage device; and uses an alias cache for intercepting messages between the destination and source storage devices.
- a RX_ID mapping cache is used to substitute a RX_ID so that that a Fibre Channel write target appears to the source storage device as the destination storage device, and to the destination storage device a Fibre Channel read target appears to be the source storage device.
- a SAN having at least a host system and plural storage devices functionally coupled to each other.
- the SAN includes a Fibre Channel switch element that receives a user command to copy data from a source storage device to a destination storage device, wherein the Fibre Channel switch receives the user command and controls the copying operation such that the Fibre Channel switch appears to the source storage device as the destination storage device, and to the destination storage device the Fibre Channel switch appears to be the source storage device.
- a Fibre Channel switch element functionally coupled to a host system and plural storage devices is provided.
- the Fibre Channel switch element includes a switch software module that receives a user command to copy data from a source storage device to a destination storage device, wherein the Fibre Channel switch controls the copying operation such that the Fibre Channel switch appears to the source storage device as the destination storage device, and to the destination storage device the Fibre Channel switch appears to be the source storage device.
- Figure IA shows an example of a Fibre Channel storage area network
- Figure IB shows an example of a Fibre Channel switch element, according to one aspect of the present invention.
- Figure 1C shows a block diagram of a 20-channel switch chassis, according to one aspect of the present invention
- Figure ID shows a block diagram of a Fibre Channel switch element with sixteen GL_Ports and four 1OG ports, according to one aspect of the present invention
- Figure IE shows a block diagram of a switch configuration where data is copied using a Fibre Channel switch, according to one aspect of the present invention
- Figure IF shows a block diagram of a switch port used for controlling a copy operation, according to one aspect of the present invention
- Figure 2 shows a logic diagram of a RX_ID mapping cache, according to one aspect of the present invention
- Figure 3 is a flow diagram for switch controlled copy operation, according to one aspect of the present invention.
- Figure 4 shows a block diagram for RX_ID substitution, according to one aspect of the present invention.
- D_ID A 24-bit Fibre Channel header field that contains the destination address for a frame.
- Exchange Operations for a SCSI data read or write. An exchange consists of three operational phases: command phase, data movement phase and response phase.
- E_Port A fabric expansion port that attaches to another Interconnect port to create an Inter- Switch Link.
- F_Port A port to which non-loop N_Ports are attached to a fabric and does not include FL_ports.
- Fibre Channel ANSI Standard The standard (incorporated herein by reference in its entirety) describes the physical interface, transmission and signaling protocol of a high performance serial link for support of other high level protocols associated with IPI, SCSI, IP, ATM and others.
- Fabric The structure or organization of a group of switches, target and host devices (NL_Port, N_ports etc. ) .
- Fabric Topology This is a topology where a device is directly attached to a Fibre Channel fabric that uses destination identifiers embedded in frame headers to route frames through a Fibre Channel fabric to a desired destination.
- Intelligent A SCSI device that initiates an input/output (“10") operation, for example, a HBA.
- L_Port A port that contains Arbitrated Loop functions associated with the Arbitrated Loop topology.
- OX_ID An Originator (i.e., a device/port that originates an exchange) Exchange identification field in a Fibre Channel frame header.
- N-Port A direct fabric attached port, for example, a disk drive or a HBA.
- NL_Port A L_Port that can perform the function of a N_Port.
- PLOGI Standard Fibre Channel N_Port to N_Port login. PLOGI determines N_port to N_Port parameters and provides a specific set of operating parameters for communicating between N_ports. The port requesting PLOGI sends a PLOGI Extended Link Service Request addressed to the D_ID of an N_Port with which it needs to communicate. The addressed N_Port then returns an ACC (accept) reply. The request and reply contain operating parameters for communication between the N_Ports. The format for the request and reply are provided by the Fibre Channel standards. "Port”: A general reference to N. Sub. — Port or F.Sub. —Port.
- PRLI Fibre Channel process log-in used by SCSI devices to establish a SCSI connection.
- RX_ID A responder (i.e., a device/port that responds) exchange identification field in a Fibre Channel frame header.
- SCSI FCP A standard protocol, incorporated herein by reference in its entirety for implementing SCSI on a Fibre Channel SAN.
- S_ID A 24-bit field in a Fibre Channel frame header that contains the source address for a frame.
- Switch A fabric element conforming to the Fibre Channel Switch standards.
- Target A SCSI device that accepts IO operations from Initiators, for example, storage devices such as disks and tape drives.
- SWITCH ELEMENT To facilitate an understanding of the preferred embodiment, the general architecture and operation of a Fibre Channel switch element will be described. The specific architecture and operation of the preferred embodiment will then be described with reference to the general architecture of the Fibre Channel switch element.
- Figure IB is a block diagram of a 20-port ASIC fabric element according to one aspect of the present invention.
- Figure IB provides the general architecture of a 20-channel switch chassis using the 20-port fabric element.
- Fabric element includes ASIC 20 with non-blocking Fibre Channel class 2 (connectionless, acknowledged) and class 3 (connectionless, unacknowledged) service between any ports. It is noteworthy that ASIC 20 may also be designed for class 1 (connection-oriented) service, within the scope and operation of the present invention as described herein.
- the fabric element of the present invention is presently implemented as a single CMOS ASIC, and for this reason the term "fabric element" and ASIC are used interchangeably to refer to the preferred embodiments in this specification.
- Figure IB shows 20 ports, the present invention is not limited to any particular number of ports.
- ASIC 20 has 20 ports numbered in Figure IB as GLO through GL19. These ports are generic to common Fibre Channel port types, for example, F_Port, FL_Port and E-Port. In other words, depending upon what it is attached to, each GL port can function as any type of port. Also, the GL port may function as a special port useful in fabric element linking, as described below. For illustration purposes only, all GL ports are drawn on the same side of ASIC 20 in Figure IB. However, the ports may be located on both sides of ASIC 20 as shown in other figures. This does not imply any difference in port or ASIC design. Actual physical layout of the ports will depend on the physical layout of the ASIC.
- Each port GL0-GL19 has transmit and receive connections to switch crossbar 50.
- One connection is through receive buffer 52, which functions to receive and temporarily hold a frame during a routing operation.
- the other connection is through a transmit buffer 54.
- Switch crossbar 50 includes a number of switch crossbars for handling specific types of data and data flow control information. For illustration purposes only, switch crossbar 50 is shown as a single crossbar. Switch crossbar 50 is a connectionless crossbar (packet switch) of known conventional design, sized to connect 21 x 21 paths. This is to accommodate 20 GL ports plus a port for connection to a fabric controller, which may be external to ASIC 20.
- connectionless crossbar packet switch
- the fabric controller is a firmware-programmed microprocessor, also referred to as the input/output processor ("IOP") .
- IOP 66 is shown in Figure 1C as a part of a switch chassis utilizing one or more of ASIC 20. As seen in Figure IB, bi-directional connection to IOP 66 is routed through port 67, which connects internally to a control bus 60. Transmit buffer 56, receive buffer 58, control register 62 and Status register 64 connect to bus 60. Transmit buffer 56 and receive buffer 58 connect the internal connectionless switch crossbar 50 to IOP 66 so that it can source or sink frames.
- Control register 62 receives and holds control information from IOP 66, so that IOP 66 can change characteristics or operating configuration of ASIC 20 by placing certain control words in register 62. IOP 66 can read status of ASIC 20 by monitoring various codes that are placed in status register 64 by monitoring circuits (not shown) .
- FIG. 1C shows a 20-channel switch chassis S2 using ASIC 20 and IOP 66.
- S2 will also include other elements, for example, a power supply (not shown) .
- the 20 GL_Ports correspond to channel C0-C19.
- Each GL_Port has a serial/deserializer (SERDES) designated as S0-S19.
- SERDES serial/deserializer
- the SERDES functions are implemented on ASIC 20 for efficiency, but may alternatively be external to each GL_Port.
- the SERDES converts parallel data into a serial data stream for transmission and converts received serial data into parallel data.
- the 8 bit to 10 bit encoding enables the SERDES to generate a clock signal from the received data stream.
- Each GL_Port may have an optical-electric converter, designated as OE0-OE19 connected with its SERDES through serial lines, for providing fibre optic input/output connections, as is well known in the high performance switch design.
- the converters connect to switch channels C0-C19. It is noteworthy that the ports can connect through copper paths or other means instead of optical-electric converters.
- Figure ID shows a block diagram of ASIC 20 with sixteen GL ports and four 1OG (Gigabyte) port control modules designated as XG0-XG3 for four 1OG ports designated as XGP0-XGP3.
- ASIC 20 include a control port 62A that is coupled to IOP 66 through a PCI connection 66A.
- a Fibre Channel switch initiates the Fibre Channel SCSI commands to read data from a source storage device and writes data to a destination storage device. To the source device, the switch appears to be the destination device, and to the destination device, the switch appears to be the source.
- Data frames are routed directly from the source storage device to the destination by the switch.
- Control frames are intercepted by the switch and then processed as if the switch is a SCSI FCP initiator.
- Figure IE shows an example of a system that allows a Fibre Channel switch element 20 to control and facilitate data copying between storage devices.
- ASIC 20 has F_Ports 22 and 19 that are coupled to storage devices 18 and 16, respectively.
- a user interface 23 is provided that is functionally coupled to the switch software/firmware 24, which is a part of a switch management software program (not shown) .
- Software module 24 receives user commands via user interface 23 to perform back up or to perform a copy operation.
- the user commands include source (i.e., the storage device from where data is to be copied, for example, device 18) device information; and destination device (i.e. the device where the data is to be copied, for example, device 16) information.
- ASIC 20 takes control of the copying operation.
- ASIC 20 sends a write command to the destination device, for example, 16 and a read command to the source device, for example, 18.
- the addresses in the commands will appear to come from the storage devices but will actually come from ASIC 20.
- Figure IF shows an example of a port 22, according to one aspect of the present invention.
- Port 22 includes a receive pipeline that receives Fibre Channel frames/data 29. Received data 29 is processed and then via crossbar 50 moves to the transmit pipeline 28.
- the transmit pipeline 28 transmits data 30 to the destination. Details of the pipelines and how frames are transmitted using alias cache 27 are provided in the patent application serial number 10,894,546, filed on July 20, 2004, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
- Alias Cache 27 is used to intercept control frames from the source device 18 and destination 16 of the copy operation and routes the frame to switch software 24. Other functionality of Alias Cache 27 has been described in the aforementioned patent application.
- Port 22 also includes a RX__ID Mapping cache 26 that substitutes the RX_ID on frames being received or transmitted by port 22.
- RX_ID mapping cache 26 substitutes the RX_ID provided by device 16 with the RX_ID provided by device 18. Without this substitution, device 16 will see a different RX_ID from the one it expects and the exchange may fail because of a protocol error.
- RX_ID mapping cache 22 is described below in detail with respect to Figure 2. If an exception condition occurs, for example, if a target device has timed out, then IOP 66 firmware processes the exception condition.
- Figure 3 shows a process flow diagram for executing a copy operation controlled by switch 20.
- step S300 user commands for a copy/back up operation are received via user interface 23.
- data is to be copied from device 18 to device 16.
- switch software module 24 performs set-up/log in operations for device 16.
- Switch 20 sends PLOGI frames to devices 18 and 16 and if successful, sends PRLI frames to devices 18 and 16 and then waits for a reply. It is noteworthy that the switch 20 logs into a target (for example, 18) , rather than the target logging into switch 20.
- step S302 switch 24 sets up alias cache 27 to intercept frames from device 18 and 16 and re-route them to IOP 66 (that controls the operation of switch software 24) .
- Alias cache 27 is setup in both ports (i.e. pprts 22 and 19) connecting to devices 18 and 16. It is noteworthy that steps S301 and S302 may occur simultaneously to avoid delay in executing the copy operation. Also, although alias cache 27 is setup to intercept the frames, any other component may be used to act as a filter for the frames.
- step S303 switch 20 using software 24 initiates a SCSI write operation with destination 16 using the SCSI FCP_CMND message.
- the source address is set to that of device 18.
- step S304 switch 20 also assigns an 0X_ID to the exchange.
- step S305 device 16 sends a SCSI FCP_XFER_RDY message in reply to the command sent by switch 20 in step S303.
- the message from device 16 includes a D__ID that is set for device 18 (the source device) and the RX_ID that is also assigned by device 16.
- step S306 switch software 24 routes the message received from device 16 to IOP 66 and in step S307, switch software 24 sets' up RX_ID mapping cache 26 in port 22 that receives frames from device 18.
- step S308 switch software 24 initiates a SCSI read command with device 18 using a SCSI FCP_CMND message.
- the source address of the message is set to the N_Port address of device 16.
- step S309 data is routed directly from device 18 to device 16.
- Data itself is not intercepted by Alias cache 27.
- RX_ID mapping cache substitutes the RX_ID from the FCP_XFER_RDY message (in step S305) in data frames so that device 16 gets the RX_ID it is expecting. Due to the substitution, the Fibre Channel write target appears to the source storage device as the destination storage device, and to the destination storage device the Fibre Channel read target appears to be the source storage device
- step S310 after device 18 has sent all the data, it sends a FCP_RSP message. This message is again intercepted by Alias cache 27 and routed to software 24 (i.e. IOP 66) .
- switch software 24 sends a LOGO message to both devices 18 and 16, if there are no errors during the Exchange. Switch software 24 also sends a completion message to the user. If there were any errors during the Exchange, then switch software 24 performs error recovery similar to a SCSI initiator.
- RX_ID mapping cache 26 and alias cache 27 only have to compare the D_ID or S_ID for executing a copy operation.
- RX__ID mapping cache 26 includes plural entries and maps the D_ID for frames received at a port or the S_ID for frames that are being transmitted from the port to a RX_ID. Entries in cache 26 are populated by switch software 24 during the target-to- target copy operation described above with respect to Figure 3.
- Figure 2 shows a detailed logic diagram from RX_ID mapping cache 26 with entries 00 to entry 15 (i.e. 16 entries) . Entry 00 includes 26P, a 16- bit value for RX_ID substitution.
- Cache 26 includes a multiplexer 26D that receives a 24-bit D_ID value 26C for frames that are received and a 24-bit S_ID value 26B for frames that are transmitted from a port (for example, 22) .
- Command/signal 26A is used to enable receive side (i.e. D_ID) comparison.
- a similar command/signal (not shown) is used for the transmit side.
- Incoming frames D_ID or S_ID values are compared by logic 26K, 26L and 26M with entries 26F, 26G and 26H, respectively.
- a valid bit 26E is set for valid entry.
- Logic 26N generates a command/signal (output 26J) based on the comparison.
- Output 26J is sent to logic 26Q that generates a hit signal 26R or a multiple hit signal 26S. If a multiple hit signal 26R is generated, then the lowest entry number may be used and an error status is set and sent to IOP 66. Output 26J is also sent to an encoder module 26T, whose output is sent to MUX 26U. If hit signal 26R is generated then the RX_ID from the cache entry (26P) is substituted into a frame header RX_ID field. This is shown as 26V in Figure 2.
- Figure 4 shows a block diagram of how RX_ID substitution takes place.
- a frame 31 enters a port (for example, 22) and the various frame fields are shown in Table 33.
- An outgoing frame from a port is shown as 32 and the various frame fields are shown in Table 34.
- the RX_ID substitution has been described above with respect to Figure 2 and 3.
- Cyclic redundancy code (“CRC”) is updated for frames with RX_ID substitution. The previous CRC value is checked before the new CRC value is substituted. If a CRC error is detected then the frames end of frame (“EOF”) is modified to show an invalid frame.
- a Fibre Channel switch controls data copying from one storage device to another storage device. This prevents the need for data to be copied from a source storage device to a server, then from the server to a destination device.
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