PROTOCOLS

FCIP: Entire Fibre Channel Frame Over IP

Fibre Channel Over TCP/IP (FCIP) describes mechanisms that allow the interconnection of islands of Fibre Channel storage area networks over IP-based networks to form a unified storage area network in a single Fibre Channel fabric. FCIP relies on IP-based network services to provide the connectivity between the storage area network islands over local area networks, metropolitan area networks, or wide area networks.

FCP: Fibre Channel Protocol

Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) is the interface protocol of SCSI on the Fibre Channel.

iFCP: Internet Fibre Channel Protocol

Internet Fibre Channel Protocol (iFCP) is a gateway-to-gateway protocol, which provides fibre channel fabric services to fibre channel devices over a TCP/IP network. iFCP uses TCP to provide congestion control, error detection and recovery

iSCSI: Internet Small Computer System Interface

Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) is a TCP/IP-based protocol for establishing and managing connections between IP-based storage devices, hosts and clients, which is called Storage Area Network (SAN)

iSNS: Internet Storage Name Service

iSNS facilitates scalable configuration and management of iSCSI and Fibre Channel (FCP) storage devices in an IP network, by providing a set of services comparable to that available in Fibre Channel networks. iSNS thus allows a commodity IP network to function at a comparable level of intelligence to a Fibre Channel fabric.

NDMP: Network Data Management Protocol

The Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) is an open protocol for enterprise-wide network based data management. NDMP defines a network-based mechanism and protocol for controlling backup, recovery, and other transfers of data between primary and secondary storage.

The NDMP (version 5) architecture is based on the client server model. The backup management software is considered the client, namely NDMP data management application (DMA)

SAS: Serial Attached SCSI

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is an evolutionary replacement for the Parallel SCSI physical storage interface. Serial Attached SCSI offers much faster communication and easier configuration. In addition, Serial Attached SCSI provides device compatibility to Serial ATA and uses similar cabling.

SCSI: Small Computer System Interface

Small Computer System Interface (SCSI), an ANSI standard, is a parallel interface standard used by Apple Macintosh computers, PCs, and many UNIX systems for attaching peripheral devices to computers. SCSI interfaces provide for faster data transmission rates than standard serial and parallel ports. In addition, you can attach many devices to a single SCSI port. There are many variations of SCSI: SCSI-1, SCSI-2, SCSI-3 and the recently approved standard Serial Attached SCSI (SAS).

Devices

Disk Array

A disk array is a disk storage system which contains multiple disk drives. It is differentiated from a disk enclosure, in that an array has cachememory and advanced functionality, like RAID and virtualization.

Components of a typical disk array include:

Disk array controllers
Cache memories
Disk enclosures
Power supplies

Typically a disk array provides increased availability, resiliency and maintainability by using additional, redundant components (controllers, power supplies, fans, etc.), often up to the point when all single points of failure (SPOFs) are eliminated from the design. Additionally those components are often hot-swappable.

Typically, disk arrays are divided into categories:

Network attached storage (NAS) arrays
storage area network (SAN) arrays:
Modular SAN arrays
Monolithic SAN arrays
Utility Storage Arrays
Storage virtualization

Tape Devices

A tape library, sometimes called a tape silo, tape robot or tape jukebox, is a storage device which contains one or more tape drives, a number of slots to hold tape cartridges, a barcode reader to identify tape cartridges and an automated method for loading tapes (a robot).

Optical JukeBox

An optical jukebox is a robotic data storage device that can automatically load and unload optical discs, such as Compact Disc, DVD, Ultra Density Optical or Blu-ray disc and can provide terabytes and petabytes of tertiary storage. The devices are often called optical disk libraries, robotic drives, or autochangers. Jukebox devices may have up to 2,000 slots for disks, and usually have a picking device that traverses the slots and drives. The arrangement of the slots and picking devices affects performance, depending on the space between a disk and the picking device. Seek times and transfer rates vary depending upon the optical technology.

Jukeboxes typically contain internal SCSI or SATA based recordable drives (CD-ROM, CD-R, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RAM, UDO or Blu-ray) that connect directly to a file server and are managed by a third party jukebox management software. This software controls the movement of media within the jukebox, and the pre-mastering of data prior to the recording process

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http://en.wikipedia.org

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28 January 2011

Storage Area Networks PART 2 : Protocol and Devices

List of SAN network management systems

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