Fibre Channel Solution Guide – 2012
This year, Fibre Channel has achieved a significant milestone. FCIA has termed it 10-10-10 for 10 million Fibre Channel ports shipped, $10B invested in Fibre Channel technology and 10 Exabytes (EB) of storage shipped . [...]
Software
In this section, the term "software" refers to drivers and utilities, diagnostics, storage and network management software, and integrated code such as firmware and ASIC state machine integration of software functionality such as CPU and [...]
Hardware
Fibre Channel hardware interconnects storage devices with servers and forms the Fibre Channel fabric. The fabric consists of the physical layer, interconnect devices, and translation devices. The physical layer consists of copper and fiber-optic [...]
Advanced-Level Case Studies (Old Generation)
Advanced-Level Case Studies (Old Generation) Large corporations, government institutions, and service providers require highly scalable storage that spans large areas and are highly available. Fibre Channel offers solutions for high-end SANs that meet regulatory requirements [...]
Entry-Level Case Studies
The benefits of SANs are most apparent in real-world applications. Entry-level SANS typically result when a company moves directly attached SCSI storage to storage pools connected by Fibre Channel. When the basic Fibre Channel infrastructure [...]
Making Sense of a SAN
The fundamental problem that SANs solve is how to connect terabytes of information to hundreds of servers reliably. Directly attached storage works well for a few servers with a few hundred gigabytes of storage, but [...]
