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Tutorials: iSCSI/IP Storage

Tutorial: InfiniBand

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Interesting Stuff

Storage News, Reviews and Guides

Biscu: Web File Storage System
  • BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services 3 (EDD-3) Standard will address key new technologies such as InfiniBand, PCI Express and HyperTransport
  • Removable Cartridge Drives: Products, Reviews, Prices
  • emedialive: Digital Video products and news
  • searchStorage.com: Storage-Specific Search Engine
  • Storage Search: Links to Numerous Storage Technologies
  • Gary Field's SCSI Info Central/SCSI FAQ
  • SCSI Explorer: SCSI Links and Info
  • NASD Technology Background: Talks and Papers
  • Storage Universe News
  • The Storage Review
  • Tom's Hardware Guide: The Storage Guide
  • OpenITx Storage Listservers
  • Server Blade Summit 2005: Tutorial T2A: Getting the Most from Your Blade Servers (22 March 05, 1330-1700)

    Server Blade Summit 2005: Session 105: Interfaces (23 March 05, 1600-1730)

    Server Blade Summit 2005: Session 103: Storage Issues (23 March 05, 1400-1530)

    Server Blade Summit 2004: Blade Standards Birds of a Feather Session (9 March 04)

    Server Blade Summit 2004: Workshop B2: Storage Architectures (11 March 04)

    SAN West 2002: Session 105 - Storage Management (14 May 02)

    SAN West 2002: BOF Session - iSCSI (14 May 02)

    FCTC 2001: 4th Fibre Channel Technologies Conference: Session 203 - Storage Management Software (17 Oct 01)

    FCTC 2001: 4th Fibre Channel Technologies Conference: BOF Session - SAN File Systems (17 Oct 01)

    SAN Conference 2001: Session 103 - Storage over Ethernet and IP (6 June 01)

    SAN Conference 2001: BOF Session - Storage over Ethernet and IP (5 June 01)

    FCTC 2000: 3rd Fibre Channel Technologies Conference: Session 103 - Relationships with SCSI (11 Oct 00)

    SAN Conference 2000: Session 203 - Storage Management Software (1 June 00)

    FCTC '99: 2nd Fibre Channel Technologies Conference: Session 103 - Relationships with SCSI (3 Nov 99)

    Brian A. Berg, Berg Software Design: Session 103 Introduction
  • Mike Befeler, Benchmark Tape Systems Corp.: Tape Automation and the Migration from SCSI to Fibre Channel
  • Mike Smith, Emulex Corp.: Fibre Channel Moves to Center Stage
  • Skip Jones, QLogic Corp.: Fibre Channel - Multiple Protocols on One Wire
  • Tracy Crowe, JNI: Management of SCSI Drives from a Fibre Channel Controller
  • Dr. Mahmoud Jibbe, LSI Logic Storage Systems, Inc.: Stability Test Matrices for Fibre Channel Components
  • Storage Talks, Conference Archives and White Papers

    Parallel SCSI Interface

    iSCSI (Internet SCSI)/SCSI over IP/FC over IP/iFCP

    Adaptec ships iSCSI host adapters (Infostor article)
  • IP Storage Working Group (ips WG) Charter and Current IETF Documents
  • ips WG links: (document links are stale)
  • RFC 3347: iSCSI Requirements and Design Considerations (July 2002)
  • Julian Satran's IPS Archive: iSCSI drafts, IETF meeting minutes, etc.
  • iSCSI draft Rev. 20 of 19-Jan-03 (.pdf)
  • iSCSI draft Rev. 20 of 19-Jan-03 (text)
  • FCIP draft Rev. 12 of August 2002
  • iFCP draft Rev. 14 of December 2002
  • Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) draft Rev. 22 of February 2004
  • Fibre Channel Frame Encapsulation draft Rev. 8 of May 2002
  • Cisco's Linux iSCSI driver and daemon
  • SourceForge Project: linux-iscsi
  • SCSI/TCP Mailing List (Unofficial) Archive at eGroups
  • IP Storage Mailing List FTP Archive
  • Ultra320 SCSI

    Parallel SCSI Documents

    Extended Copy (XCOPY) SCSI Command for SAN Serverless Backup

    Bridges/Routers: Fibre Channel to Parallel SCSI

    Bridges/Converters for SCSI, IDE/ATA/ATAPI, 1394 and USB

    New Approaches to SCSI and Storage

    Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)

    SCSI Socket Services (SSS)

    IDE/ATA/ATAPI Parallel Interface (see also Optical Storage)

    Serial ATA (SATA)

    InfiniBand

    Storage and I/O Organizations

    Fibre Channel Serial Interface

    Fibre Channel (T11)
  • T11 Document Register
  • Fibre Channel Industry Association
  • Fibre Alliance
  • Fibre Channel Roadmap
  • An Introduction to Fibre Channel
  • Fibre Channel Tutorial: University of New Hampshire
  • Fibre Channel Community (FCC) industry association
  • Fibre Channel homepage at CERN
  • 2Gb Fibre Channel: Making the Transition to the Next Generation of SANs
  • Fibre Channel books
  • Fibre Channel Dictionary
  • SBP-2 Final Draft: Serial Bus Protocol-2
  • SBP-3 draft Rev. 5 of 16-Sep-03: Serial Bus Protocol-3
  • FCP Final Draft: FC Protocol for SCSI commands
  • FCP-2 draft Rev. 8 of 23-Oct-02: FC Protocol for SCSI, 2nd Version
  • FCP-3 draft Rev. 3f of 23-Mar-05: FC Protocol for SCSI, 3rd Version
  • SFF-8045: 40-pin SCA-2 FC-AL signal assignments
  • SFF-8067: Enclosure Services Interfaces (ESI) for 40-pin SCA-2 FC-AL Connector
  • Fibre Channel Support and Testing: FSI Consulting
  • Fibre Channel Product Testing: Medusa Labs
  • IEEE 1394 Serial Interface

    Universal Serial Bus (USB)

    SAN and NAS Topics

    Dictionary of Storage Networking Terminology
  • Storage Virtualization: Storage Networking World article
  • In-band vs. out-of-band virtualization: InfoStor article
  • Storage Virtualization: InfoStor article
  • SAN Buyers Guide: auto-spreadsheet creation
  • SANsite: Network Storage info site
  • SAS, NAS, SAN: Past, Present and Future
  • SAN and NAS: Complementary Technologies
  • SAN Basics: IBM Perspective
  • IP-based storage: The buzz on the wire (Aberdeen Group white paper)
  • SAN Glossary
  • SANergy: SAN Operating System
  • SAN Zoning
  • Software: Tools, Drivers, Managers

    File Systems

    IEEE 1244 / OpenVault / SmartMedia

    IEEE P1244: Storage System Standards Working Group (SSSWG)
  • IEEE Computer Society Press Release: P1244 SSSWG Standards Approved
  • Media Management System (MMS) standards: InfoStor article
  • IEEE Press Release: Groundbreaking Storage System Standards Now Approved
  • SGI OpenVault Interface Standards
  • SGI OpenVault Open Source Code
  • Windows/NT/Win2000/UNIX Topics

    Standards Bodies

    ANSI
  • ISO
  • JTC 1
  • ECMA
  • INCITS (formerly NCITS and ASC X3)
  • International standardizing bodies
  • Useful Information on Standards Committees
  • Standards: Search and Acquisition

    Standards URL Cornucopia
  • NSSN global standards search
  • Global Engineering Documents (GED)
  • TIA/EIA Standards search
  • Small Form Factor (SFF) Committee Home Page
  • SFF Catalog of Specs
  • SFF Specs: ftp access
  • Organizations, SIGs and Developer Groups

    Institute for Information Storage Technology (includes magnetic disk recording history)
  • Gigabit Ethernet Alliance
  • I2O SIG
  • IDEMA: Int'l. Disk Drive Equipment Materials Assoc.
  • Intel Developers' Insight
  • MFPA: MultiFunction Products Association
  • NDMP (Network Data Management Protocol) Task Force for network-based backup
  • PCI SIG
  • PCI books
  • PCMCIA
  • Server System Infrastructure (SSI) Initiative
  • SNIA: Storage Networking Industry Assoc.
  • SNIA SNIFs: Tom Clark interview
  • Storage Performance Council
  • RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks)

    RAB: RAID Advisory Board
  • RAB Publications
  • RAB Reports and Papers
  • Review: Winchester Systems FlashDisk RAID
  • Review: 2 RAID-based servers
  • RAID Performance Study
  • SAF-TE: SCSI Accessed Fault-Tolerant Enclosures
  • SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) Final Draft: SCSI-3 command set for device enclosures
  • SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) Amendment 1 of 12-Jun-00
  • SCSI Enclosure Services-2 (SES-2) draft Rev. 11 of 12-Mar-05
  • Optical Storage, incl. DVD and CD (see also IDE/ATA/ATAPI)

    Tape Storage

    Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Home Page
  • DLTtape Home Page
  • AIT Tape Home Page
  • Tape Resource Center
  • Sony AIT and Super AIT plans
  • Tape Technology Overview (incomplete)
  • Reports and Research

    Windows 2000 and NT I/O Performance Study of IDE and SCSI HDDs
  • Seagate Disc Technology Base: FAQs, Tech. Papers, etc.
  • SMART Technology Paper
  • Solid State File-Caching for Performance and Scalability
  • TRAAMS: Optical-Tape-Based Rapid Access Affordable Mass Storage
  • DiskSim Disk Drive Simulator Project
  • 10 GB on a Roll of Tape
  • Storage Networking: Building a Better Foundation for Enterprise Data
  • Storage Wars: The Future of the Storage Market
  • UniTree HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management)
  • UniTree HSM: An Independent Evaluation
  • DISK/TREND reports, conferences and vendor links
  • Freeman Associates: market research, consulting, reports
  • Strategic Research: Market Research
  • Mass Storage Report
  • ISIS: Info. Storage and Interconnect Systems Project
  • Center for Magnetic Recording Research (CMRR)
  • Training, Education and Symposiums

    MPEG and VRML

    FAQs, Glossaries and Miscellaneous Links

    Storage FAQ
  • Storage Manufacturer Links
  • DVD FAQ
  • BIOS FAQ
  • BIOS Bunker: InfoWorld article
  • Brocade SAN Glossary
  • IBM Hard Disk Glossary
  • IBM Storage Interfaces: Brief Overviews
  • PC Specs.: BIOS, Plug-and-Play, etc.
  • TINA: Telecommunications Info. Networking Architecture
  • TINA Consortium
  • LANL e-Print Archive
  • CoRR: Computing Research Repository
  • Dunstan Thomas: Software Architecture and OOAD Consulting Services
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