Week 6 in IST 423 had a very broad range of topics from an intro to drivers for IP SAN and began learning Fiber Channel Storage Area Networks and related concepts of this module like block-level storage virtualization and EMC Connectrix. We Then went over topics such as iSCSI and gateways. At an internship of mine two summers ago I helped some of the IT officers with data duplication and a modern data infrastructure so this lecture was one that really clicked for me.
Some additional reading I did on Fiber Channel SAN –
https://searchstorage.techtarget.com/tip/The-anatomy-of-a-SAN-Fibre-Channel-SAN-explained
While doing my reading and skimming I also found this recent article –
https://www.networkcomputing.com/data-centers/sinking-fibre-channel-san