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CLARiiON Asymmetric Active/Active is a feature that introduces a new initiator

Failover Mode (Failover Mode 4).


When configured as Failover Mode 4, initiators can send I/O to a LUN regardless of
which SP owns the LUN.
While this feature allows a trespass-like command, explicit trespass behavior is
not required.

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.

An iSCSI target is a storage resource located on an Internet Small Computer System


Interface (iSCSI) server.
iSCSI is a protocol used to link data storage devices over an IP network
infrastructure.

In computer storage, a logical unit number, or LUN, is a number used to identify a


logical unit,
which is a device addressed by the SCSI protocol or Storage Area Network protocols
which encapsulate SCSI,
such as Fibre Channel or iSCSI.

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.

In a SAN fabric, LUN storage is essential to the configuration of the environment


and its performance.
A LUN is a unique identifier given to separate devices, or logical units, so they
can be accessed by a SCSI, iSCSI or Fibre Channel protocol.

what is meant by lun in netapp


An aggregate is the physical storage. It is made up of one or more raid groups of
disks.
You can see the Data ONTAP 'Storage Management Guide' for documentation. A LUN is a
logical representaion of storage. It looks like a hard disk to the client.

What is a boot LUN?


You can boot a host from a storage system LUN instead of an internal hard disk.
SAN booting can help to improve system availability, enable centralized
administration,
and eliminate the costs associated with maintaining and servicing hard drives.

What is boot from SAN?


BfSAN is slightly different, because the boot disk, as the name suggests,
is on the SAN. In this case, the server relies on the BIOS of
its host bus adapter (HBA)(or iSCSI adapter in the case of an iSCSI SAN) to find
the
boot device on the SAN, from where the operating system can be loaded.

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