Fibre Channel
Next Generation Data Center Design With MDS 9700 – Part III
Note: This is the third of a three-part series on Next Generation Data Center Design with MDS 9700; learn how customers can deploy scalable SAN networks that allow them to Scale Up or Scale Out in a non disruptive way. Part 1 | Part 2 ] This week is exciting, had opportunity to sit on round […]
Balancing the MDS Scales in Your Favor
One of the main themes I’ve been running into a lot lately is the sense of scale. For a while the term actually lost much of its meaning because it has been used to describe any number of systems that happen to be large. Scale-up. Scale-out. At scale. See what I mean? The term is […]
Cisco MDS for Small to Cloud-Scale Data Centers
Superior Platforms, Scale, and Operational Simplicity Data Center trends like Virtualization, Solid State Drives, DC consolidation and Data Explosion are putting a tremendous amount of strain on the infrastructure. These challenges need targeted and multifaceted approach. It has to be holistic solution to the problems rather than point products for each unique problem. Data Centers […]
Load Balancing with Dynamic FCoE
Learn how load balancing and recovery works in a Dynamic FCoE situation.
Next Generation Data Center Design With MDS 9710 – Part II
Note: This is the second of a three-part series on Next Generation Data Center Design with MDS 9700; learn how customers can deploy scalable SAN networks that allow them to Scale Up or Scale Out in a non disruptive way. Part 1 | Part 3 ] EMC World was wonderful. It was gratifying to meet industry professionals, […]
Next Generation Data Center Design With MDS 9710 – Part I
Note: This is the first of a three-part series on Next Generation Data Center Design with MDS 9700; learn how customers can deploy scalable SAN networks that allow them to Scale Up or Scale Out in a non disruptive way. Part 2 | Part 3 ] Data centers are undergoing a major transition to meet […]
Storage Distance by Protocol, Part IV: Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
In the past articles we’ve talked about doing distance extension for SANs, focusing first on building the physical elements that are required, before moving on to how Fibre Channel can be extended using buffer credits. In this article we’re going to talk about how it is best to think of extending Fibre Channel over Ethernet […]
Storage Distance by Protocol, Part III – Fibre Channel
In Napkin Dialogues fashion, we learn about how Fibre Channel is used in long-distance situations.
Storage Distance by Protocol, Part II – Physical Layer
In the second part of the FibreChannel and FCoE distance series, we learn about how the physical layer is critical for understanding storage distances before we ever get to the protocol.