Recently, the FCIA hosted a live webcast, “Data Center Scalability Made Easy with Fibre Channel Services” where our Fibre Channel experts, Barry Maskas of HPE, David Peterson of Broadcom and Kiran Ranabhor of Cisco provided context to the terminology and explanations on Fibre Channel Services, including device and topology discovery, zoning, security, clock synchronization and [...]
Last month the FCIA announced completion of the Fibre Channel-NVMe-2 standard with groundbreaking features that include Sequence Level Error Recovery which optimizes how Fibre Channel natively transports NVM Express™ (NVMe). The FC-NVMe-2 standard is focused on allowing bit errors to be detected and recovered at the transport layer before the protocol layer knows anything is amiss. [...]
Emulex SAN Manager Provides Centralized Monitoring, Management, and Automated Performance Optimization SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 02, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) today announced the release of Emulex SAN Manager, lowering enterprise operational cost and complexity. Emulex SAN Manager enables server and storage administrators the ability to troubleshoot and resolve network issues in [...]
New End-to-End 64Gb/s Storage Solutions Boast Industry-Leading Switches, Adapters, and Transceivers SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 01, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) today announced the availability of the industry’s first Gen 7 64Gb/s Fibre Channel switching platforms— the Brocade X7 Directors and G720 Switch, that are foundational infrastructure for the on-demand data center. Additionally, [...]
FCIA Announces Completion of the Fibre Channel-NVMe-2 Standard With Groundbreaking Features for Increased Reliability in the Data Center FC-NVMe-2 Includes Sequence Level Error Recovery Which Optimizes How Fibre Channel Transports NVM Express™ (NVMe) Natively in Today’s Datacenters MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., August 11, 2020 – The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) today announced the International Committee on [...]
Fibre Channel continues to evolve to ensure easy scalability within the data center and Fibre Channel Services such as the Fabric Login Server, Fabric Controller, and Name Server are among the capabilities that are used to support and simplify management and operation of a Fibre Channel Fabric. Fabric Services also meet the need for traffic [...]
In our most recent FCIA webcast, we asked “Is FC-NVMe Ready for Prime Time?” Of course, the answer was a resounding “Yes.” During the live event, our FCIA experts highlighted a snapshot of where the industry is with FC-NVMe, its key differentiators and the breadth of solutions available today. If you missed the live event [...]
Emulex HBAs by Broadcom Deliver More than Twice the Performance for Virtual Machines Running on ESXi 7.0 with NVMe over Fibre Channel SAN JOSE, Calif., April 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) announced today its Emulex Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) are the industry’s first-ever HBAs to provide full support for VMware [...]
Where are we today with NVMe over Fibre Channel (FC-NVMe) solutions? Find out on June 9, 2020 when the FICA hosts a live webcast, “Is FC-NVMe Ready for Prime Time?” The T11 specification for (FC-NVMe) was completed in 2018. Since that time, the FCIA has hosted numerous plugfests and products have been shipping now for years. [...]
Fibre Channel Industry Association Elects 2020 Board of Directors as Data Center Trends Drive Fibre Channel Adoption INCITS T11 Publishes Fibre Channel Physical Interface Standards, Speeding Development of 64GFC and Gen 7 Solutions for the Storage Area Networking Market MINNEAPOLIS, March 17, 2020 – Amidst an expanding market being driven by major data center trends, the [...]
