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IOMEGA STORCENTER IX12-300R ADVANCED NETWORK CONFIGURATION GUIDE
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TERMINOLOGY
LAN: Local Area Network.
NIC: Network Interface Card (a.k.a. Network Adapter)
Virtual NIC: Virtual network interface card. In this paper, it refers to a VLAN or bonded NIC device.
NAS: Network Attached Storage. The name given to dedicated data storage technology that can be connected
directly to a computer network to provide centralized data access and storage to heterogeneous network clients.
NIC bonding: a computer networking technology that uses multiple network ports/cables in parallel to increase
the link speed beyond the limits of any one single port/cable and to increase the redundancy for higher
availability. Other similar terms include NIC teaming, link aggregation, Ethernet trunking, etc.
VLAN: Virtual LAN. A Virtual LAN (VLAN) is a group of hosts with a common set of requirements that
communicate as if they were attached to the same broadcast domain, regardless of their physical location.
A VLAN has the same attributes as a physical LAN, but does not require the hosts to be located on the
same network switch.
MTU: Maximum Transmission Unit, sometimes also referred to as payload. This is the size of the largest
protocol data unit that a computer networking layer can transmit.
Jumbo Frame: an Ethernet frame that carries more than the standard 1518 bytes of MTU.
IEEE 802.3ad: a NIC bonding protocol referred to by its IEEE workgroup name.
IEEE 802.1Q: also known as VLAN Tagging, is a networking standard written by the IEEE 802.1 workgroup to
allow multiple bridged networks to transparently share the same physical network link without leakage of
information between networks.
REFERENCES
1. Intel Advanced Networking Services With Ethernet Teaming,
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/network/9195p/en/Intel_nic_teaming_10.pdf
2. Using Microsoft MPIO with Iomega StorCenter for iSCSI High Availability,
http://download.iomega.com/com/nas/pdfs/mpio-iscsi.pdf
3. Using Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d NAS Server with VMware vSphere 4,
http://download.iomega.com/com/nas/pdfs/vsphere_0110.pdf
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