Storage Networking Protocol Fundamentals (Vol 2)

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Explain the purpose of each Upper Layer Protocol (ULP) commonly used in modern storage networks

• Describe the general procedures used by each ULP discussed in this chapter

The goal of this chapter is to quickly acclimate readers to the standard upper-layer storage protocols currently being deployed. To that end, we provide a conceptual description and brief procedural overview for each ULP. The procedural overviews are greatly simplified and should not be considered technically complete. Procedural details are provided in subsequent chapters.