Q: A company's server virtualization team needs to provision a series of Hyper-V workloads to use existing network storage arrays. The team has chosen to use Fibre Channel ports within the guest ...

Fibre Channel data rates are about to double--again. This 10-year-old server and storage connection technology has grown from 1 Gbps to 2 Gbps, and now products are available that bridge the 4 Gbps ...

(through an L_port by using direct attachment to a server). Table 1-2 lists the topologies in which the drive can operate, the Fibre Channel server connections that are available, and the port through ...

Fibre Channel is the king of enterprise storage-area-network technologies. ISCSI, however, is the heir apparent. When it comes to new SANs, add-ons to existing systems or departmental-level ...

Although Fibre Channel has been around for a while, it's just now starting to be accepted within the enterprise. As such, there are still many IT pros who don't understand Fibre Channel. In this ...

As FCoE has come onto the scene, the FC vs. iSCSI fire has been reignited. A balanced perspective will save you time and money In the beginning there was Fibre Channel (FC), and it was good. If you ...

Broadcom has launched its first Fibre Channel Gen7 storage switches, which allow array-server connectivity at 64Gbps, which is double the performance of Gen6. The new switches – the Brocade G720 and ...