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At one point in time, when you wanted to attach an external block storage device to a
server, you mapped it as a Logical Unit (LU) across a Storage Area Network (SAN). In
the early days, you would do this over the Fibre Channel (FC) protocol. More recently,
iSCSI (SCSI over IP) has usurped FC in most data centers.