Routing Scsi Requests And Responses; Routing Scsi Requests And Responses For Scsi Routing - HP StorageWorks SR2122 User Manual

Software Overview

Routing SCSI Requests and Responses

SCSI routing consists of routing SCSI requests and responses between hosts in an
IP network and FC storage.
IP hosts
Figure 32: Routing SCSI requests and responses for SCSI routing
Each host that requires IP access to storage via an IP Storage Router 2122-2 needs
to have a compatible iSCSI driver installed. Using the iSCSI protocol, the iSCSI
driver allows an IP host to transport SCSI requests and responses over an IP
network. From the perspective of a host operating system, the iSCSI drive appears
to be a locally attached SCSI or Fibre Channel drive to the host.
SCSI routing consists of the following main actions (see
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SCSI requests and responses
Transporting SCSI requests and responses over an IP network between the
hosts and the SR2122-2
Routing SCSI requests and responses between hosts on an IP network and FC
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Transporting SCSI requests and responses between the SR2122-2 and FC
storage
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