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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Q & A
| 1: | What are the two main performance areas in storage networks? |
| 2: | True or false: DAS storage is less reliable than network storage. |
| 3: | Which of the following is not part of the software used in the I/O path: file system, volume manager, storage resource manager, multipathing drivers, or SCSI driver? |
| 4: | What are the two layers most HBAs need? |
| 5: | Name the host system hardware components in the I/O path. |
| 6: | What is flow control used for? |
| 7: | Name the subsystem hardware elements found in the I/O path. |
| 8: | True or false: Storage controllers in subsystems are the same as host system HBAs. |
| 9: | True or false: File systems and operating systems do not have to be from the same vendor. |
| 10: | True or false: The volume manager usually writes I/Os directly to disk device drivers. ... |
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