3 raid levels – APC RAID Subsystem SCSI-SATA II User Manual

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WWN

World Wide Name.

HBA

Host Bus Adapter.

MPIO

Multi-Path Input/Output.

MC/S

Multiple Connections per Session

S.E.S

SCSI Enclosure Services.

NIC

Network Interface Card.

iSCSI

Internet Small Computer Systems Interface.

LACP

Link Aggregation Control Protocol.

MTU

Maximum Transmission Unit.

CHAP

Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol. An optional
security mechanism to control access to an iSCSI storage
system over the iSCSI data ports.

iSNS

Internet Storage Name Service.


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

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