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SCSI RDMA Protocol (SRP)
Intended to run SCSI protocol to run over
InfiniBand for SAN usage
T10 specification, similar to FCP
Transactions use RDMA for data movement from
target to initiator
Host drivers tie into standard SCSI/Disk
interfaces in kernel/OS
Linux, Windows, Solaris implementations
SFS 3000 FC Gateway is also a SRP Target
Native SRP storage targets available today
Not IB specific (no iWARP implementation yet)
InfiniBand
HCA
Reliable
Connection
User Space
Application
Kernel Space
VFS Layer
read, write, open, close
File Systems
Block Drivers
SCSI Mid Layer
SRP
Linux Driver Stack
InfiniBand
Storage
Targe
Ext2, ext3, reiser, xfs. ...
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