What are the three primary components of storage networking?
A1:
Answer: Storing, connecting, and filing
2:
True or false: Buses guarantee the order of delivery.
A2:
Answer: True
3:
Which of the following is not part of the storing component: volume management, virtualization, zoning, host bus adapters, or block I/O?
A3:
Answer: Zoning
4:
True or false: Disk drives do not need a controller.
A4:
Answer: False
5:
What is the difference between initiator and target controllers?
A5:
Answer: Initiators generate commands and send them to targets; targets respond to those commands.
6:
What kinds of storage devices and subsystems create storage address spaces?
A6:
Answer: They all do.
7:
What are the primary two things filing is responsible for?
A7:
Answer: Filing organizes where data is stored in a storage address space, and it presents that data to users and applications and it provides access control for files and directories.
8:
Explain the different roles of file systems and operating systems.
A8:
Answer: Operating systems manage time (when processes run), and file systems manage space (where data is located).
9:
What is the application difference between SAN and NAS?
A9:
Answer: SANis the application of storing in a network, and NASis the application of filing in a network.
10:
True or false: Storing and filing have to use different networks.
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