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Storage Protocols

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Encyclopedia of Database Systems

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iSCSI; FCP; Parallel SCSI; SAS; ATA; SATA; NFS; CIFS; Samba

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The emergence of networked storage has allowed organizations to de-couple their server and storage purchasing decisions. Thus, multiple application/database servers can share storage on the same network attached storage (NAS) server, or on a block storage controller via a storage area network protocol (SAN). This is unlike direct attached storage systems (DAS) where disks are connected to an application to a database server. In DAS environments, even if one only needs to add more storage, one has to also add more servers. Various types of storage networking protocols have emerged to support both NAS and SAN systems. Currently, the same storage boxes can support both distributed file (NAS) protocols such as NFS and CIFS, and block storage (SAN) protocols such as iSCSI and FCP (fiber channel). Most of the direct attached storage systems are moving from supporting parallel SCSI protocol to supporting serial...

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  1. Kaladhar V. and Prasenjit S. An analysis of three gigabit networking protocols for storage area networks. In Proc. 20th IEEE Int. Performance, Computing and Communications Conf., 2001.

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  2. Peter R., Li Y., Pawan G., Prasenjit S., and Prashant S. A performance comparison of NFS and iSCSI for IP-networked storage. In Proc. 3rd USENIX Conf. on File and Storage Technologies, 2004.

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  1. Network Appliance, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

    Kaladhar Voruganti

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Voruganti, K. (2009). Storage Protocols. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_522

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