IP-SAN performance: best practices.(Disaster Recovery & Backup/Restore) From: Computer Technology Review | Date: February 1, 2005| Author: Sante, Zophar | COPYRIGHT 2005 West World Productions, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

SAN benefits of improved storage utilization, high availability and data protection are well understood. Today, there are two protocols available for building block-based SANs: FC (Fibre Channel) and iSCSI. Both protocols use SCSI commands generated by the file systems of the servers. These SCSI commands are converted by the iSCSI or FC protocol so they can move through a network to and from a centralized data storage system (usually one or several large disk arrays) where the comm...