Storage Area Network and SAN Protocols
FCP: Fibre Channel Protocol
The Fibre Channel Standards (FCS) defines a high-speed data transfer
mechanism that can be used to connect workstations, mainframes, supercomputers,
storage devices and displays.
FCIP: Entire Fibre Channel Frame Over IP
Fibre Channel Over TCP/IP (FCIP) describes mechanisms that allow the
interconnection of islands of Fibre Channel storage area networks over
IP-based networks to form a unified storage...
iFCP: Internet Fibre Channel Protocol
Internet Fibre Channel Protocol (iFCP) is a gateway-to-gateway
protocol, which provides fibre channel fabric services to fibre channel
devices over a TCP/IP network. iFCP uses TCP to ...
iSCSI: Internet Small Computer System Interface
Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) is a TCP/IP-based
protocol for establishing and managing connections between IP-based
storage devices, hosts and clients, which is cal...
iSNS: Internet Storage Name Service
iSNS facilitates scalable configuration and management of iSCSI and
Fibre Channel (FCP) storage devices in an IP network, by providing a set
of services comparable ...