iSCSI
The Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) protocol defines the rules and processes to transmit and receive block storage applications over TCP/IP networks by encapsulating SCSI commands into TCP and transporting them over the network via IP.
iSCSI是将SCSI命令在封装在TCP/IP包里面,并使用一个iSCSI帧头;封装SCSI数据包成为iSCSI需要大量消耗处理器资源。然而,iSCSI的基于TCP/IP的操作也同样有一个巨大优势,易于路由,不必特殊硬件即可实现,这也是FCoE一直应用于数据中心的一个重要原因。
FCIP
Fibre Channel over TCP/IP (FCIP) provides a mechanism to "tunnel" Fibre Channel over IP-based networks. This enables the interconnection of Fibre Channel SANs, with TCP/IP used as the underlying wide-area transport to provide congestion control and in-order delivery