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SAN management overview

The content in this section shows you how to configure and manage SAN environments with the ONTAP command line interface (CLI) and ONTAP System Manager in ONTAP 9.7 and later releases.

You can use the iSCSI and FC protocols to provide storage in a SAN environment.

conceptual overview diagram

With iSCSI and FC, storage targets are called LUNs (logical units) and are presented to hosts as standard block devices. You create LUNs and then map them to initiator groups (igroups). Initiator groups are tables of FC host WWPs and iSCSI host node names and control which initiators have access to which LUNs.

FC targets connect to the network through FC switches and host-side adapters and are identified by world-wide port names (WWPNs). iSCSI targets connect to the network through standard Ethernet network adapters (NICs), TCP offload engine (TOE) cards with software initiators, converged network adapters (CNAs) or dedicated host bust adapters (HBAs) and are identified by iSCSI qualified names (IQNs).

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