Chapter 1. Overview of Storage Networking
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
• Recount some of the key historical events and current business drivers in the storage market
• Recognize the key characteristics and major benefits of each type of storage network
• Distinguish between file-level and block-level protocols
• Explain the principal differences between mainframe and open systems storage networking
• Describe the basic differences between Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH), coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM)/dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), and resilient packet ring (RPR)/802.17
• Recognize each storage virtualization model
• Describe how the technologies discussed ...
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