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WWN
W
orld
W
ide
N
ame.
HBA
H
ost
B
us
A
dapter.
SAF-TE
S
CSI
A
ccessed
F
ault-
T
olerant
E
nclosures.
SES
S
CSI
E
nclosure
S
ervices.
NIC
N
etwork
I
nterface
C
ard.
LACP
L
ink
A
ggregation
C
ontrol
P
rotocol.
MPIO
M
ulti-
P
ath
I
nput/
O
utput.
MC/S
M
ultiple
C
onnections per
S
ession
MTU
M
aximum
T
ransmission
U
nit.
CHAP
C
hallenge
H
andshake
A
uthentication
P
rotocol. An optional
security mechanism to control access to an iSCSI storage
system over the iSCSI data ports.
iSNS
I
nternet
S
torage
N
ame
S
ervice.
1.3 RAID levels
RAID 0
Disk striping. RAID 0 needs at least one hard drive.
RAID 1
Disk mirroring over two disks. RAID 1 needs at least two hard
drives.
N-way
mirror
Extension to RAID 1 level. It has N copies of the disk.
RAID 3
Striping with parity on the dedicated disk. RAID 3 needs at
least three hard drives.
RAID 5
Striping with interspersed parity over the member disks. RAID
3 needs at least three hard drives.
RAID 6
2-dimensional parity protection over the member disks. RAID
6 needs at least four hard drives.
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