The Realization of Virtual Storage Networking Based on Asymmetric Architecture
Zhao Liu · 2004
The explosive growth of global data is dramatically driving the demand for storage system. Network storage has been giving more and more attentions. Now the two most popular ones are NAS (Network Attached Storage) and SAN (Storage Area Network). Both the NAS and SAN have themselves architecture, interconnected protocol, file organization and manage method etc.. Recently, it has become the trends to merge them into universal storage architecture. In this paper, based on the storage virtualization, we have realized one asymmetric virtual storage network prototype to merge the NAS and SAN.