Logical Unit Number masking
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| Fibre Channel | |
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| Layer 4. Protocol mapping | |
| LUN masking | |
| Layer 3. Common services | |
| Layer 2. Network | |
| Fibre Channel fabric Fibre Channel zoning Registered State Change Notification |
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| Layer 1. Data link | |
| Fibre Channel 8B/10B encoding | |
| Layer 0. Physical |
Logical Unit Number Masking or LUN masking is an authorization process that makes a Logical Unit Number available to some hosts and unavailable to other hosts.
LUN masking is mainly implemented at HBA level. The security benefits of LUN masking implemented at HBAs are limited, since with many HBAs it is possible to forge source addresses (WWNs/MACs/IPs) and compromise the access. Many storage controllers also support LUN masking. When LUN masking is implemented at storage controller level, controller itself enforces the access policies to the device due to which it is more secure. However, it is mainly implemented not as a security measure per se, but rather as a protection against misbehaving servers which may corrupt disks belonging to other servers. For example, Windows servers attached to a SAN will, under some conditions, corrupt non-Windows (Unix, Linux, NetWare) volumes on the SAN by attempting to write Windows volume labels to them. By hiding the other LUNs from the Windows server, this can be prevented, since the Windows server does not even realize the other LUNs exist.
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