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Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
The Fibre Channel (T11.3) standards committee developed a Standard called Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). The FCoE standard specifies the encapsulation of Fibre Channel frames into Ethernet Frames and the amalgamation of these technologies into a network fabric that can support Fibre Channel protocols and other protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP/IP etc. A “Direct End-to-End” FCoE variant has been accepted for the next version of the Standard The tutorial will show the Fundamentals of these FCoE concepts and describe how they might be exploited in a Data Center environment.
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Considerations for congestion notification in FCoE networks
Written by Gilles Chekroun, SNIA Europe Technology Chair (Cisco Systems)
Since the earliest days of data networking, congestion control and management have been a major effort to ensure the best throughput. Years ago we had technologies such as Frame Relay Forward Explicit Congestion Notification (FECN) and Backward Explicit Congestion Notification (BECN), and others to achieve simple and effective methods of congestion notification and avoidance. -
Beyond Potatoes; Migrating from NFSv3
Written by Alex McDonald, SNIA Europe UK committee member (NetApp)
NFSv4 and the minor versions that follow it are designed to address many of the issues that NFSv3 poses. While adequate for many purposes and a familiar and well understood protocol, NFSv3 has become increasingly difficult to justify. -
Managing iSCSI Adapters with VMware vSphere 4.1
With the release of vSphere 4.1, VMware has added support for 10GbE iSCSI adapters that simplify deployment of iSCSI connectivity for virtualized servers. iSCSI adapters present separate network and storage devices to the ESX hypervisor that can be managed using the VMware vSphere client.
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