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: ...

Get Storage Networking Fundamentals: An Introduction to Storage Devices, Subsystems, Applications, Management, and Filing Systems now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.