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How Fibre Channel over Ethernet Improves Data Center Efficiency





  Table of Contents:
  1. How Fibre Channel over Ethernet Improves Data Center Efficiency
  2. FCoE Deployment in Data Centers
  3. Loss-less Ethernet via Data Center Bridging
  4. Benefits of Convergence: Cost and Power Savings

Fibre Channel over Ethernet is an emerging protocol that is creating a lot of buzz in the IT industry. Knowledge Center contributor Jay Kidd shares a quick overview of Fibre Channel over Ethernet and explains how it can improve the efficiency in your data center.

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Fibre Channel over Ethernet transports Fibre Channel frames over an Ethernet fabric. This enables data centers to increase application performance while simultaneously reducing cost, power and manageability tasks by converging storage, networking and clustering data on a single fabric.

There are six key benefits of FCoE:

Benefit No. 1: High-performance storage access over loss-less 10 Gigabit Ethernet fabrics

Benefit No. 2: Transparent access to storage devices using existing SAN (storage area network) management methods

Benefit No. 3: Retention of enterprise-proven Fibre Channel drivers and management tools

Benefit No. 4: Lower capital, energy and cooling costs with fewer adapters, cables and switches

Benefit No. 5: Lower management overhead by maintaining a single fabric

Benefit No. 6: Increased application availability by simplifying the network and server configuration

FCoE is the encapsulation of Fibre Channel in Ethernet

FCoE is an evolution of Fibre Channel that uses Fibre Channel's network, service and protocol layers to carry data packets over Ethernet’s physical and data link layers. Using Fibre Channel's upper layers simplifies FCoE deployment by allowing customers to leverage enterprise-proven Fibre Channel software stacks, management tools and trained administrators. Most importantly, no change is required for mission-critical applications to benefit from the performance and cost benefits of FCoE.



 
 
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