difference between scsiport and storport?

[Michael Diver]

Hi,

We use Windows OS on our SAN hosts with HBAs.

I was wondering, what is the difference between the scsiport driver and the storport driver that is available for windows?

Thanks

[Víctor Cespón · Accepted solution]

Storport stack was introduced by Microsoft on Windows 2003 to provide better support for SAN devices. It's more appropiate for disks on a SAN.

A good article about storport here:

http://www.emulex.com/artifacts/5a478fb7-fb29-41b1-a9f7-f0349bcdfba8/Storport1.pdf

[Michael Diver]

thanks, that answers it nicely,

cheers

Mike