Abstract
This chapter focuses on storage devices that are involved with storage networking, utilizing different storage networking interfaces. Storage is one of the essential components of storage networking, with the other being networking and input/output (I/O) interfaces. Storage devices and media include embedded processor-based cache, direct Random Access Memory (RAM), Read Only Memory (ROM), nonvolatile RAM (NVRAM) and ROM (NVROM), rotating (spinning) disk media, and magnetic tape. . These can be combined into different combinations to derive various storage and I/O subsystems. An I/O or storage subsystem is the collection of components commonly referred to as a storage array that includes I/O interfaces, cache, controllers, and physical media (disk, tape, memory, optical). However, storage networking devices include servers, adapters, I/O paths (storage interfaces), switches, intelligent switches, storage devices (disk, tape, and SSD), as well as gateways, routers, and bridges for protocol conversion and distance support. The different servers can support different applications, including domain name services (DNS) for network name services and authentication, file, print, Web, and data warehouse to name a few.
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