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Storage Protocols

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

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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 networkingprotocols 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 ATA...

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  1. Kaladhar V, Prasenjit S. An analysis of three gigabit networking protocols for storage area networks. In: Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Performance, Computing and Communications Conference; 2001.

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

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  1. Advanced Development Group, Network Appliance, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

    Kaladhar Voruganti

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Advanced Development Group, Network Appliance, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

    Kaladhar Voruganti

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Voruganti, K. (2018). Storage Protocols. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_522

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