Storage Networking Fundamentals: An Introduction to Storage Devices, Subsystems, Applications, Management, and Filing Systems

A Review of Technologies Used in Storage Virtualization

As a fundamental technique in storage networking, there have been numerous other discussions pertinent to the understanding of storage virtualization in this book. Readers who want a review of this material may want to look at the following sections:

• Chapter 2

  - “Block I/O”

  - “The Storage Address Space”

  - “Storage Address Space Manipulation”

• Chapter 3

  - “Volume Managers”

• Chapter 4

  - “Logical Block Addressing”

• Chapter 5

• “Storage Address Space Management”

• Chapter 6

• “SCSI Logical Units”

• Chapter 8

  - “Identically Sized Storage Address Spaces”

• Chapter 9

  - “Capacity Scaling Through Striping”

  - “RAID Product Options”