(depending upon specific configurations, typically up to 16 devices per bus).
For maximum throughput, ASC supports multiple SCSI busses and/or adapters.
For SAN/IP Clients (non-Fibre Channel Clients), ASC packages the storage
requests into IP packets using Acer’s SAN/IP™ protocol. Requests made to the
client’s virtual adapters are converted to SAN/IP packets. The ASC Server
receives the SAN/IP packets and converts them to SCSI commands. The ASC
Server then responds with the storage data, again packaged as SAN/IP packets.
Acer’s SAN/IP handles the entire process with minimal overhead so that the SCSI
devices are operating at maximum throughput, even over the storage network.
An advantage of packaging the storage data into SAN/IP packets is that the
data can be carried over trunked adapters, effectively multiplying the potential
throughput for single and multiple device accesses. This is not possible on bus-
based interfaces because all of the data must be transmitted on the same bus;
data cannot be split over multiple busses.
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