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IP SAN Solutions: Where Do They Fit?
White Papers This is directly analogous to a Fibre Channel SAN, which is based on FC networking infrastructure and uses the FCP (Fibre Channel SCSI) protocol. An IP SAN is a storage area network based on IP networking infrastructure using the iSCSI (Internet...
[December 23, 2004, 23:00]
SAN Fundamentals: How Fibre Channel SANs Are Built, Secured And Managed
White Papers In this paper, the term Storage Area Network (SAN) is used to describe a Fibre Channel network over which SCSI-FCP (SCSI over Fibre Channel) Protocols run. The most common Upper Level Protocols are SCSI and TCP/IP.
[January 7, 2008, 23:00]
White Paper On Hard Disk Technology In Palladium Store 1000
White Papers At the time, the hard disk drive technology of choice was typically SCSI based and, in later years, Fibre Channel drives. SCSI and Fibre Channel drives have led the way with the highest capacity, performance and reliability.
[August 25, 2007, 0:00]
Fibre Channel And Tape Libraries Made For Each Other
White Papers Fibre Channel is viewed as an improvement over traditional SCSI connections between servers and storage subsystems. By the year 2001, spending on Fibre Channel interfaces will be higher than SCSI for the first time.
[November 9, 2003, 23:00]
BitMicro Announces 1.6TB Solid-state Drive
News The company sells a wide range of small drives in the Altima family in various capacities from 3GB and up, and in Fibre Channel, SAS, Serial ATA and SCSI formats. The latest product, announced this week, has a SCSI interface.
[February 8, 2008, 11:46]
Hitachi Jumps Ahead Of IBM In Storage Race
News Hitachi and IBM are competing to offer larger drives, while applications like virtualisation and large Web servers are making increasing demands on the speed that data can be delivered from the disk, causing interfaces such as 320MB per second...
[November 8, 2001, 15:48]
Understanding Compaq StorageWorks RAID Array 4000 And Infrastructure Cabling
White Papers Compaq StorageWorks RAID Array 4000 storage solutions shatter distance, connectivity, capacity, and bandwidth limitations of small computer systems interface (SCSI) technology. While SCSI technology continues to satisfy the needs of many...
[August 28, 2003, 0:00]
Qlogic Corporation Simplifies The Process Of Networking Storage For OEMs, Resellers, And Systems Integrators
White Papers QLogic's SANblade iSCSI host bus adapters (HBAs) are the newest addition to QLogic's award-winning line of SCSI and Fibre Channel adapter products. QLogic is the industry leader in iSCSI design wins, with ASIC and HBA products already available and...
[November 6, 2006, 23:00]
Getting Started With ZSeries Fibre Channel Protocol
White Papers The purpose of this paper is two-fold: to provide information to help you understand the concepts of zSeries Fibre Channel Protocol support, and to show you how various SCSI devices can be configured to build a zSeries FCP environment.
[September 30, 2004, 0:00]
Compaq RAID Array 4000 Storage System: Deployment And Configuration
White Papers Fibre Channel storage solutions shatter distance, connectivity, capacity, and bandwidth limitations of SCSI. Fibre Channel allows highly scalable, high-performance storage solutions for the most demanding applications.
[August 28, 2003, 0:00]
ISCSI Technology: A Convergence Of Networking And Storage
White Papers This technology brief introduces readers to the Internet SCSI (iSCSI) protocol, places iSCSI in the context of existing I/O fabrics such as Fibre Channel and IP, discusses the initial applications of IP storage technologies, and addresses the...
[May 18, 2004, 0:00]
Emerging Fabric Technologies
White Papers These technologies include RDMA/TCP (Remote DMA over TCP/IP), InfiniBand, and Internet Protocol (IP) storage protocols such as Internet SCSI and Fibre Channel over IP. The concept of a unified high-speed data center infrastructure is relatively new.
[May 15, 2004, 0:00]
Cisco's Storage Strategy : Opening New Markets Through Partnerships
White Papers Adapters attach servers and peripherals to the wiring in the network; bridges convert from one protocol to another (typically SCSI to Fibre channel); hubs, switches, and directors provide the central connection point and routing capability, much...
[August 25, 2004, 0:00]
Redesigning RAID For SATA Drives With Accelerated Drive Teaming (XDT)
White Papers ATA and newer SATA disk drives developed for the single-user, desktop market cost far less than their SCSI or Fibre Channel counterparts that were developed for multi-user, server applications. In the seventeen years since RAID researchers at...
[August 30, 2007, 0:00]
Enabling A Highly Scalable And Available Storage Environment Using Oracle Automatic Storage Management
White Papers This paper introduces the concept of ASM and presents techniques for implementing Oracle Database 10g databases on Dell/EMC Fibre Channel and Dell PowerVault SCSI storage arrays. As databases grow larger, requiring more disk drives and cluster...
[August 6, 2004, 0:00]
SAN As The SCSI Bus Replacement
White Papers Implementing a Fibre Channel SAN not only solves the SCSI performance, configuration, distance, availability and cost problems, but also enables you to more easily manage your storage. In the past, the SCSI bus has provided most servers with their...
[March 5, 2004, 23:00]
Assessing And Comparing HP Parallel SCSI And HP Small Form Factor Enterprise Hard Disk Drives In Server Environments
White Papers This paper only addresses the P-SCSI HDDs and small form factor enterprise HDDs, and does not include parallel ATA or Fibre Channel hard drive technology. This paper provides guidance and best case-scenarios for customers when deciding to implement...
[August 25, 2007, 0:00]
Dell Servers, Storage, And Services Supercharge The National Center For Supercomputing Applications
White Papers The solution deployed includes Dell PowerEdge servers with Intel Xeon processors running Linux operating systems; Dell PowerConnect and Force10 Networks Force10 E1200 Ethernet switches; Dell PowerVault 220S SCSI storage enclosure and DataDirect...
[July 7, 2006, 0:00]
Adaptec, Seagate Plot Ultra2 SCSI 80Mb/sec Raid
News Adaptec and Seagate will early in February take the wrapping off Ultra2 SCSI, a backwards-compatible extension of SCSI-3 that takes the storage drive interconnect technology to an 80Mb/sec bandwidth in "wide" 16-bit mode.
[January 28, 1998, 14:26]
Storage Design - Have You Considered ISCSI?
White Papers internet SCSI (iSCSI) is an official standard ratified by the Internet Engineering Task Force (RFC 3720, RFC 3783) that allows the use of the SCSI protocol over TCP/IP networks.iSCSI technology is well accepted in corporate production environments...
[October 20, 2006, 0:00]
