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IP SANs: A Guide to iSCSI, iFCP, and FCIP Protocols for Storage Area Networks
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IP SANs: A Guide to iSCSI, iFCP, and FCIP Protocols for Storage Area Networks

by Tom Clark
November 2001
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
7h 58m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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9.3. Chapter Summary

Discovery

  • Discovery refers to the detection of targets by initiators to establish storage sessions.

  • Discovery in direct-attached storage occurs by simple polling of the server's SCSI bus.

  • Discovery in storage networks requires mechanisms to identify potential targets that may be dispersed throughout the network.

  • The discovery process is closely bound to the concept of ownership of storage resources by specific initiators.

Discovery in Fibre Channel

  • Discovery in Fibre Channel loop may be accomplished by polling through the loop address space of 126 possible addresses.

  • Discovery in Fibre Channel fabrics requires a name service for targets within an address space spanning 15.5 million possible addresses.

  • The Fibre Channel SNS is ...

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