Methods and systems for communicating with storage systems using slim IP stacks

摘要

Methods, and associated devices, media, and systems, for establishing a communication link between a host system and a storage device are provided. Such a method includes the steps of: providing a communication stack (14) having only an application layer (2) and a physical layer (1), and establishing a communication channel (4) between a host system and the storage device using the communication stack (10). The step of establishing may be performed via a TCP/IP emulator (24) in a host-system side (20) and a storage-command interpreter (26) in a storage-device side (22). The method may further include: establishing a communication channel between the host system and a device having a static-IP address; and establishing a communication channel between the host system and a device having a storage identifier that is embedded into one of command parameters sent by the application layer or the physical layer to the TCP/IP emulator (24).