Fibre Channel Components
Fibre Channel Terminology
Fibre Channel Terminology
What are the basic elements of a SAN?
In a SAN, the nodes are the end points of the SAN and a file system is a SAN
component. Nodes do not understand Fibre Channel.
The nodes communicate through ports and the ports understand Fibre
Channel.
Ports communicate with other ports across a link.
The node can be a server, a subsystem, a tape device, etc. The application
will be run on the server and the data will be stored on the storage (i.e. the
subsystem or tape device).