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Iscsi, Internet small computer systems interface, Chap – Thecus Technology i Series User Manual

Page 8: Isns, Internet storage name service, 3 raid levels, Raid 0, Raid 1, N-way mirror, Raid 3

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iSCSI

I

nternet Small Computer Systems Interface.

CHAP

C

hallenge Handshake Authentication Protocol. An optional

security mechanism to control access to an iSCSI storage
system over the iSCSI data ports.

iSNS

I

nternet Storage Name Service.

1.3 RAID levels

RAID 0

Disk striping. RAID 0 needs at least one hard drive.

RAID 1

Disk mirroring over two disks. RAID 1 needs at least two hard
drives.

N-way
mirror

Extension to RAID 1 level. It has N copies of the disk.

RAID 3

Striping with parity on the dedicated disk. RAID 3 needs at
least three hard drives.

RAID 5

Striping with interspersed parity over the member disks. RAID
3 needs at least three hard drives.

RAID 6

2-dimensional parity protection over the member disks. RAID
6 needs at least four hard drives.

RAID 0+1

Mirroring of the member RAID 0 volumes. RAID 0+1 needs at
least four hard drives.

RAID 10

Striping over the member RAID 1 volumes. RAID 10 needs at
least four hard drives.

JBOD

The abbreviation of “Just a Bunch Of Disks. JBOD needs at
least one hard drive.

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