Storage Networks: The Complete Reference
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I
I-bus (internal bus), 97
IDS (intrusion detection system), 422
IEEE1394 standard, 110111
image processing case study, 453464
import auto industry case study, 465476
in- band management functions, 246247
Industry Standard Architecture (ISA), 99
InfiniBand standard, 268, 343346, 496
infrastructure, 361
Initial Sequences Numbers (ISNs), 438439
inodes, 120, 166
instances, 127
integrity, 425
internal bus (I-bus), 97
International Image Processing Company case study, 453464
Internet
Common Internet File System. See CIFS
data stored on. See web-based storage
servers on, 14, 21
WIT workloads, 304307, 327328
Internet NAS architecture, 139141
Internet Protocol. See IP
Internet SCSI. See iSCSI
Internet service providers (ISPs),1415, 185
interrupt processing, 98
interswitch linking (ISL) functions, 249251
intrusion detection system (IDS), 422
I/O bandwidth, 344345
I/O buffer pool, 146
I/O bus standard, 18
I/O buses, 9798, 109113
I/O channels, 9698
I/O content, 156, 285290
I/O device addressing, 145
I/O fabric, 344345
I/O manager
described, 144145
features, 145146
NAS hardware as, 144152
NAS software as, 171174
I/O operations
block, 337338, 342343
distributing, 5356
NAS, 134137, 144152, 156, 339
Rapid I/O, 346347
SANs, 5356, 337338, 340
shared I/O, 112113
WIT I/O, 327
I/O operations performed per second (IOPS), 156
I/O priority interface, 146
I/O subsystem, 145146
I/O systems, 78
I/O workloads, 275292
attributes, 281284
business applications, 281284
capacity planning and, 405406
characterization of, 278280
considerations, 290292
data organizational model, 285290
data paths, 289290
defined, 278
integration with web services, 341
NAS, 173174
storage networking and, 290292
user access, 287289
workload solutions matrix, 292
See also workloads
IOPS (I/O operations performed per second), 156
IP (Internet Protocol), 80
IP access points, 262
IP addresses, 189191
IP communications, 102
IP packets, 102
IP ports, 222
ISA (Industry Standard Architecture), 99
iSCSI configurations, 342344
iSCSI devices, 264
iSCSI (Internet SCSI) standard, 276, 496
ISL functions, 242, 249252
ISL (interswitch linking) functions, 242, 249251
ISNs (Initial Sequences Numbers), 438439
ISPs (Internet service providers), 1415, 185
IT organizations
effects of storage networks on, 3334
storage networking needs, 2123
IT utility programs, 56
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