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ASC SAN Client installation
ASC SAN Clients access their storage resources via software-emulated virtual
adapters (for SAN/IP). The storage resources appear as locally attached devices
to the SAN Clients’ operating systems (Windows NT, Windows 2000, Linux, etc.)
even though the SCSI devices are actually located at the ASC Server.
There’re 3 types of SAN clients:
• SAN/IP SAN Client
• iSCSI SAN Client
• Fibre Channel SAN Client (not supported by ACER ASC Express version)
SAN/IP protocol definition
SAN/IP is a protocol specially developed for ASC in order to access SAN Storage
over IP.
iSCSI protocol definition
ACER recommends to use the SAN/IP protocol instead of iSCSI. It’s an industry
evolving standard storage protocol, recently ratified by the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF) that is designed to transport block-level storage
traffic over IP networks.
iSCSI employs Ethernet as the transport for data from servers to storage devices
or SANs. The protocol takes standard SCSI commands into TCP and sends them
over standard Ethernet, a venerable technology familiar to most IT shops. To
create an iSCSI-based SAN, network designers bring together servers equipped
with an iSCSI host bus adapter (HBA) or network interface card (NIC), disk
arrays and tape libraries.
It’s not widely used today due to a limited number of supported platforms
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