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Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA), also known as Target Port Groups Support
(TPGS),
is a set of SCSI concepts and commands that define path prioritization for SCSI
devices.
ALUA is a formalized way to describe SCSI port status, and access characteristics.
Current referring to what SP can send IO to a LUN and a LUNs backend disk and
default referring to what SP is set to be the owner on array bootup or
a non-trespassed situation. A LUN being in a trespass state simply means
the LUN is currently owned by the SP that isn't it's default owner.
iSCSI is the SCSI protocol mapped to TCP/IP and run over standard Ethernet
technologies.
This allows Ethernet networks to be deployed as SANs at a much lower TCO than Fibre
Channel (FC).
Parallel SCSI and serial attached SCSI (SAS) are technologies designed to be inside
a box such as DAS or within a storage array.