Storage Networking Protocol Fundamentals (Vol 2)

1

What company invented the modern hard disk drive?

2

Who published the SMI-S?

3

List two competitive advantages enabled by storage networks.

4

What is an IP-SAN?

5

What block-level storage protocol is commonly used in desktop and laptop PCs?

6

What is the latest version of the SCSI protocol?

7

What is the term for an adapter that processes TCP packets on behalf of the host CPU?

8

List the two types of IBM channel protocols.

9

An IBM ESCON director employs what type of switching mechanism?

10

A Fibre Channel switch employs what type of switching mechanism?

11

What company originally invented CIFS?

12

What standards body made NFS an industry standard?

13

What type of multiplexing is used by SONET/SDH?

14

What is the WDM window?

15

List one reason the sparse wavelength spacing of CWDM enables lower product costs.

16

In what class of networks is IEEE 802.17?

17

List the two categories of block-oriented virtualization techniques.

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