An individual certified in CCIE Storage will be highly skilled with LANs, MANs and WANs over Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FCIP and FICON, and must demonstrate in-depth understanding of layer 2 and layer 3 network infrastructures.
The SoIP configuration uses UDP instead of TCP, thus eliminating the need for TCP offload engines that are used in FC and iSCSI, reducing cost and/or processing overhead.
Tegile builds their Zebi line of storage arrays, providing support for a range of technologies, including iSCSI, NFS, SMB/CIFS and Fibre Channel.
A VSAN, like each FC fabric, can offer different high-level protocols such as FCP, FCIP, FICON, iSCSI.