Introduction
Audience for this Manual
CLI Storage-Management Guide 1-3
Resilient Overlay Network (RON)
You can connect multiple ARXes with a Resilient Overlay Network (RON), which
can reside on top of any IP network. This provides a network for distributing and
accessing file storage. ARXes can replicate storage to other switches in the same
RON, updating the replicas periodically as the writable master files change. This is
called a shadow copy, where a source volume on one switch periodically copies its
files to one or more shadow volumes on other switches. Clients can access the shadow
volumes at multiple geographic locations, independent to where the source volume
resides.
Audience for this Manual
This manual is intended for
• network technicians responsible for layer 1 and 2 networks,
• network engineers responsible for the Internet Protocol (IP) layer (layer 3),
• storage engineers who design and manage storage systems (SANs, NASes, and
DASes), and
• crypto officers who manage all of the Critical Security Parameters (CSPs) of a
network.
The text presumes that all readers are comfortable with a command-line interface
(CLI), especially one based on the Cisco IOS.
Using this Manual
The next chapter shows some of the problems in today’s storage networks and
provides high-level instructions for using the ARX to solve those problems.
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