StorageProtocolFamily

This page contains links to various protocols used for block storage and backups.

These protocols are often used in Storage Area Networks (SAN).

Block Protocols

• SCSI: Small_Computer_System_Interface: A protocol normally used to attach devices such as disk drives, scanners, tape drives etc to a computer. Considered being more high-end and superior to ATA. Wireshark supports dissection of SCSI over FibreChannel, iSCSI, NDMP and HyperSCSI

• ATA: AT Attachment: A protocol used mainly to talk to IDE hard disks on desktop and laptop PCs. Wireshark supports dissection of ATA over AOE

Transports

Fibre Channel Family

• FibreChannel: A low-latency interconnect used to connect FC/SCSI devices to hosts in a FibreChannel SAN. Expensive but provides high performance. --XXX all other fibrechannel protocols we support to be added as well

IP Storage Family

• iSCSI: A protocol to transport SCSI ontop of TCP/IP.

• iSNS: Internet_Storage_Name_Server: A name server (and more) similar to the FibreChannel name server.

• FCIP: Fibre Channel Over IP: A protocol to transport FibreChannel over IP.

• iFCP: Internet Fibre Channel Protocol: Another protocol to transport FibreChannel over TCP/IP.

• NBD: Network Block Device: A simple block protocol for Linux.

Ethernet Storage Family

• HyperSCSI: A protocol to transport SCSI over Ethernet.

• AOE: ATA_Over_Ethernet: A protocol to transport ATA over Ethernet.

• FCoE: Fibre_Channel_Over_Ethernet: A protocol to transport FibreChannel SAN traffic over Ethernet. See http://fcoe.com.

Backup protocols

• NDMP: Network_Data_Management_Protocol: A protocol to manage backups over an IP network.

Discussion

Imported from https://wiki.wireshark.org/StorageProtocolFamily on 2020-08-11 23:25:58 UTC