
16 SAN Multiprotocol Routing: An Introduction and Implementation
Similarly, you might want to provision storage volumes from your disk system to a
remote site. You can do this by using FCIP tunneling (Brocade and Cisco) or
iFCP protocol conversion (McDATA).
1.4.3 Connecting hosts using iSCSI
Many hosts do not require high bandwidth low latency access to storage. For
such hosts, iSCSI might be a more cost-effective connection method. iSCSI can
be thought of as an IP SAN. There is no requirement to provide a Fibre Channel
switch port for every server, nor to purchase Fibre Channel host bus adapters
(HBAs), nor to lay Fibre Channel cable between ...