[TriLUG] NC*SA Meeting - Monday, June 9th - iSCSI and SAN Technology

[Lisa Lorenzin]

The next meeting of the North Carolina System Administrators
organization (NC*SA) is upcoming.  Details about the meeting and
directions are provided in this note.  We hope to see you there!

                    NC*SA General Meeting
             6:00 pm, Monday, June 9th, 2003
                     Dreyfus Laboratory
                 Research Triangle Institute
                  Research Triangle Park, NC
                     (directions below)

Speaker: Toby Creek - Technical Engineer, Network Appliance Corp.
Topic:  iSCSI and SAN Technology

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Abstract:

The iSCSI specification was recently ratified by the IETF.  This enables
vendors and customers to build standards-based Storage Area Networks over
ethernet at a fraction of the cost of competing technologies.

iSCSI will enable IT shops that have not been able to implement SANs due to
cost constraints to network and consolidate their storage, eliminating the
administrative tasks associated with direct attached storage.

You will come away from this talk knowing the components of iSCSI, thinking
about it's potential uses in your enterprise, and believing that for the
vast majority of applications, iSCSI can bring true interoperability to
storage networking.


Speaker Biography:

Toby Creek is an experienced UNIX and Network Systems Administrator and IT
manager. Instrumental in establishing the IT infrastructure for several
well-known local companies, he is currently employed by Network Appliance.

Known by administrators as "NetApp", the company is a member the TPCC, the
DAFS Consortium, the Infiniband Trade Association and the Storage Networking
Industry Association. iSCSI is a standard which seeks to implement the SCSI
disk communications protocol over ethernet.

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Our meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in the topic
of the evening and/or system administration.  We will be providing
food and drink for the evening. If you have any questions please
contact the Steering Committee at:

  ncsa-steer at ncsysadmin.org

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Directions to Research Triangle Institute:

Directions to Research Triangle Institute
See also a map to the meeting place.

>From I-40 west of RTP (e.g. Chapel Hill):

Get onto I-40 heading east. Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham Freeway -
North (towards Durham). Stay in right lane. Shift right as soon as
possible after merging with traffic coming off I-40 westbound.

Exit to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road). At top of exit, turn
to the left. (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, you are going
the wrong direction.) After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift
immediately to the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute
Drive. Take the second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus
Laboratory will be the first building on your right. Use the parking lot
in front of the Lab and enter at the main entrance.

>From I-40 east of RTP (e.g. Raleigh):

Get onto I-40 heading west. Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham Freeway -
North (towards Durham). Shift to rightmost lane as soon as possible Exit
to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road). At top of exit, turn to
the left. (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, you are going the
wrong direction.) After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to
the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the
second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the
first building on your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and
enter at the main entrance.

>From north of RTP (e.g. Durham):

Get onto NC-147 - Durham Freeway - south. Exit at the Cornwallis Road
exit. At the top of the exit, turn left to cross over the bridge. After
turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to the right lane. Take
the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the second right off of
East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the first building on
your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the main
entrance.

A map of RTI is available at http://www.rti.org/images/campus.gif

Enter through the glass doors at the front; all of the doors except one
will be locked, but one will be open for our access.  Walk through the
lobby, go straight out the glass doors, across the patio, and straight
into Dreyfus Auditorium.