December 2004
Beginner
480 pages
11h 54m
English
book
Storage Networking Fundamentals: An Introduction to Storage Devices, Subsystems, Applications, Management, and Filing Systems
by Marc Farley
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Chapter 2
| 1: | What are the three primary components of storage networking? |
| A1: | Answer: Storing, connecting, and filing |
| 2: | True or false: Buses guarantee the order of delivery. |
| A2: | Answer: True |
| 3: | Which of the following is not part of the storing component: volume management, virtualization, zoning, host bus adapters, or block I/O? |
| A3: | Answer: Zoning |
| 4: | True or false: Disk drives do not need a controller. |
| A4: | Answer: False |
| 5: | What is the difference between initiator and target controllers? |
| A5: | Answer: Initiators generate commands and send them to targets; targets respond to those commands. |
| 6: | What kinds of storage devices and subsystems create storage address spaces? |
| A6: | Answer: They all do. |
| 7: | What are the primary two things filing is responsible for? |
| A7: ... |
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