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Fibre Channel (FC) is a high-speed data transfer protocol providing in-order, lossless [1] delivery of raw block data. [2] Fibre Channel is primarily used to connect computer data storage to servers [3] [4] in storage area networks (SAN) in commercial data centers. Fibre Channel networks form a switched fabric because the switches in a network ...
In computer networking, a Fibre Channel frame is the frame of the Fibre Channel protocol. [1] The basic building blocks of an FC connection are the frames. They contain the information to be transmitted (payload), the address of the source and destination ports and link control information. Frames are broadly categorized as Data frames; Link ...
In addition to the transfer of data, it is necessary for Fibre Channel communication to include some metadata. This allows for the setting up of links, sequence management, and other control functions. The meta-data falls into two types, primitives which consist of a 4 character transmission word and non-data frames which are more complex ...
The Fibre Channel standards define a high-speed data transfer mechanism that can be used to connect workstations, mainframes, supercomputers, storage devices and displays. FCP addresses the need for very fast transfers of large volumes of information and could relieve system manufacturers from the burden of supporting a variety of channels and ...
SAN network devices move data within the SAN, or between an initiator, such as an HBA port of a server, and a target, such as the port of a storage device. When SANs were first built, hubs were the only devices that were Fibre Channel capable, but Fibre Channel switches were developed and hubs are now rarely found in SANs.
RFC 4625 - Fibre Channel Routing Information MIB; RFC 4439 - Fibre Channel Fabric Address Manager MIB; RFC 4438 - Fibre-Channel Name Server MIB; RFC 4369 - Definitions of Managed Objects for Internet Fibre Channel Protocol iFCP; RFC 4044 - Fibre Channel Management MIB. RFC 2837 - Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fabric Element in Fibre ...
IPFC stands for Internet Protocol over Fibre Channel. It governs a set of standards created in January 2006 for address resolution and transmitting IPv4 and IPv6 network packets over a Fibre Channel (FC) network. [1] IPFC makes up part of the FC-4 protocol-mapping layer of a Fibre Channel system. [2]
The arbitrated loop, also known as FC-AL, is a Fibre Channel topology in which devices are connected in a one-way loop fashion in a ring topology. [1] Historically it was a lower-cost alternative to a fabric topology. It allowed connection of many servers and computer storage devices without using then very costly Fibre Channel switches. The ...