iSCSI
More Powerful Features Coming to Cisco SMB Switches
I hope you’re excited about our next generation 550X, 350X, 350 and 250 series switches. These new switches bring new capabilities, better performance and lower energy consumption at the same affordability of our classic 500, 300 and 200 series switches. The online emulators for these new switches a…
Cisco Live US 2014 : Looking Forward to Great Sessions on Storage Networking (FC and FCoE)
Cisco Live 2014 is fast approaching in few weeks from now. This is an important year for Cisco Live as well as Fibre Channel (FC) along with Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) family of products. For Cisco Live : it is celebrating 25th anniversary on its home ground – Bay area, San Francisco. For St…
Storage Distance by Protocol, Part II – Physical Layer
In the last article, we looked at the big picture of what is involved in creating a SAN distance extension. In this article, we’re going to take a slightly closer look at the physical requirements and with luck we’ll be able to clear up some general confusion and misconceptions along the…
Storage Distance by Protocol – FC, FCoE, and FCIP, Part I
A long time ago I got asked to write about how to use Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) for distance. After all, we were getting the same question over and over: What is the distance limitation for FCoE? Now, the short answer for this can be checking out various data sheets for the Nexus 2000, Nexu…
The Napkin Dialogues: Lossless iSCSI
What do you get when you cross iSCSI with lossless Ethernet? A lot of confusion. I do quite a lot of presentations regarding converged networks, including Fibre Channel, whether native or over Ethernet (i.e., FCoE), iSCSI, NAS, etc. The hardest part about these presentations are combating some of th…