Chapter 3. Storage Networking Building Blocks
A STORAGE NETWORK may be composed of a wide variety of hardware and software products. Software products invariably involve management of some kind: management of logical volumes, management of disk resources, management of tape subsystems and backup, and management of the network transport status. Hardware products include the storage end systems and their interfaces to the network as well as the switches and bridge products that provide connectivity. Storage network interfaces typically include legacy SCSI, Fibre Channel, and Gigabit Ethernet. Just as first-generation Fibre Channel SANs accommodated legacy SCSI disk and tape devices, IP-based storage networks must incorporate both Fibre Channel ...
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