Storage Interview Questions

SAN


What is storage array?

What is storage virtualization?

What are the main constrains of SCSI in storage networking?

What advantages would using an iSCSI Storage Area Network (SAN) give to your organization over using Direct Attached Storage (DAS) or a Fibre Channel SAN?

What is the smallest unit of information transfer in FC?

What is Multipath I/O?s

What is zoning?

What are the main constrains of SCSI in storage networking?

What are different types of protocols used in transportation and session layers of SAN?

What are the types of disk array used in SAN?

What are the protocols used in physical/datalink and network layer of SAN?

How storage virtualization helps to create SAN?


What is storage virtualization?


What is storage array?

How do you install device drivers for the HBA first time during OS installation?

What are application software available to manage Storage Area Network?

What are minimum components needed to establish Basic Storage Area Network?

What is Network Attached Storage (NAS)?

What is difference between SAN and NAS? How SAN is better than NAS?



Fiberchannel


List the comparison between FC and FCOE?

Explain FC login process?

How many classes of service are available in Fibre Channel?

What are the services provided by Fabric to all the nodes?

What are the layers of Fibre Channel Protocol?

What is the smallest unit of information transfer in FC?

What is Simple name server (SNS)?

How does FC Switch maintain the addresses?

What are the 5 states of Arbitrary Loop in FC?

What is zoning?

What are the layers of Fibre Channel Protocol?

What is the difference between LUN and WWN?

What are the services provided by Fabric to all the nodes?

How many classes of service are available in Fibre Channel?

What is the type of Encoding used in Fibre Channel?

What are different types of protocols used in transportation and session layers of SAN?

What are the protocols used in physical/datalink and network layer of SAN?

which are the FC SAN topologies?

When you will deploy Fibre Channel SAN instead of iSCSI SAN?

What are Link speed currently available for Fibre Channel SAN? What is Future?

FCOE



List the comparison between FC and FCOE?

What are benefits of iSCSI SAN over FCOE SAN?

What are the layers of FCOE Protocol?

What are different types of protocols used in transportation and session layers of SAN?

What are the protocols used in physical/datalink and network layer of SAN?

What are benefits of iSCSI SAN over FCOE SAN?

what are Link Speed available for FCOE SAN?

What is future of FC SAN vs FCOE SAN

What is applications of FCOE?

Compare between FCOE and iSCSI

What is FCOE?