Storage Networking Fundamentals: An Introduction to Storage Devices, Subsystems, Applications, Management, and File Systems (Vol 1)

Index

[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Z]

packets

     ATAPIpairs

     mirroring parallel buses 2nd

parallel SCSI buses 2nd 3rd

parallelism     RAID [See also RAID] parallelism in storageparity

     distribution     RAID 2nd 3rd [See also RAID]         limitations 2nd

         rebuild operations

         redundancy 2nd

     redundancy

partitions     address space management

     RAID

     raw     short-stroking

passive clusters

passive multipathing configurations passvice clusterspaths     backups

     clusters

     failover processing

     file systems

    I/O

         redundant elements 2nd

     multi-pathing [See also drivers;multi-pathing]

     networks

    redundancy

         DMP 2nd

     storage I/O 2nd

         components 2nd

         operating systems 2nd

         subsystem hardware 2nd PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) PCI Extended (PCI-X)

PDU (protocol data unit)

     CDBs PDUs (protocol data units)

pending

     commands

percentages

     availability (IEC)

perfomance

     storage I/O 2nd performance [See also specifications]

     ATA interconnects     backups 2nd

    DAS

         costs     DFS     disk drives 2nd     Fibre Channel

     NAS     RAID 2nd 3rd [See also RAID]    read operations

         overlapping

     remote copy

     SATA

     storage virtualization 2nd 3rd 4th     subsystems 2nd

     tape drives

     TPC Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI)

permissions

    access         file systemspersistence     SAN

physical components

     redundant paths 2nd

physical dimensions

     NAS

ping pong remote copy [See also remote copy]

pipelines

     latency

platforms

     traditional client/server computing

platters, disk

point-in-time snapshots 2nd

point-to-point connections

     SATApooling     storage 2nd

         applications 2nd

port multipliers (SATA) port selectors (SATA)

ports

     buffer memory

     dual-ported devices

     dual-ported Fibre Channel disk drives

    HBAs

         redundancy     I/O paths

     IDs     redundancy

     SCSI 2nd 3rd

     subsystem networks    subsystems         redundancy     WWPN

power     management     redundancy

primary commands

     SCSI [See also SCSI]

primary sites, remote copy

primary storage, remote copy prioritization

priority

     file systems (as applications)     parallel SCSI buses

private data areas, virtualization

private interfacesprocessing     failover     four-stroke SCSI write process

     remote copy applications 2nd

processors

     I/O paths

     redundancy

products

    storage virtualization

         SAN:virtualization 2nd

propagation

     latency of light

properties

     XOR

proprietary bus implementations

protection     backups [See also backups]protocol data unit (PDU)

     CDBs

protocol data units (PDUs)protocols

     command/response

     NDMP 2nd

     NFS 2nd

provisioning

publc interfaces