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    When Should I Deploy Fiber Channel Instead of iSCSI?

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    Fiber channel is used over enterprise storage networks that require high performance and reliability. It can scale to longer distances than iSCSI. Fiber channel uses optical protocols and transfers data at faster speeds than iSCSI, which uses electrical protocols over TCP/IP. While fiber channel SANs have been used for over a decade, their higher costs have prevented them from replacing older protocols completely. However, fiber channel SANs are expected to have long-term stable growth in the data storage market.

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    When Should I Deploy Fiber Channel Instead of iSCSI?

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    Fiber channel is used over enterprise storage networks that require high performance and reliability. It can scale to longer distances than iSCSI. Fiber channel uses optical protocols and transfers data at faster speeds than iSCSI, which uses electrical protocols over TCP/IP. While fiber channel SANs have been used for over a decade, their higher costs have prevented them from replacing older protocols completely. However, fiber channel SANs are expected to have long-term stable growth in the data storage market.

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    Fiber channel is used over enterprise storage networks that require high performance and reliability. It can scale to longer distances than iSCSI. Fiber channel uses optical protocols and transfers data at faster speeds than iSCSI, which uses electrical protocols over TCP/IP. While fiber channel SANs have been used for over a decade, their higher costs have prevented them from replacing older protocols completely. However, fiber channel SANs are expected to have long-term stable growth in the data storage market.

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    When Should I Deploy Fiber Channel Instead of iSCSI?

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    Fiber channel is used over enterprise storage networks that require high performance and reliability. It can scale to longer distances than iSCSI. Fiber channel uses optical protocols and transfers data at faster speeds than iSCSI, which uses electrical protocols over TCP/IP. While fiber channel SANs have been used for over a decade, their higher costs have prevented them from replacing older protocols completely. However, fiber channel SANs are expected to have long-term stable growth in the data storage market.

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    Q:When should I deploy Fiber channel instead of iSCSI?

    ANS:when an Enterprise class datacentre requires high perfomance and reliability of the
    data we go for fiber channel. It scales for longer distances tooo.

    Q:How Fiber channel is different from iSCSI?

    ANS:data flow in FC will be optical protocol is FCIP and iSCSI will be electrical and
    protocol is iSCSI.

    Q:What is future of fiber channel SAN?

    ANS:Though FC SAN has been in the market for more than a decade the technology has
    never been able to substitute or reform existing or older protocols. Reason being, higher
    input investment cost for getting FC based storage infrastructure in data center-the price
    has come down a lot from the initial days but still it has not gone at competitive levels.
    Secondly other technologies like NAS and iSCSI based SAN giving equal performance
    based throughput and price advantage.
    I would say FC SAN will have a long stable growth but will not be a revolutionary one.

    Q:What is ordered set?

    ANS:To move data across network FC uses a concise comand syntax reffered to as
    ordered sets

    What is 8b/10b encoding?

    encoding/decoding standard implemented in the data link layer of FC protocol stack

    What are functions provided by fiber channel’s FC-1 Level?

    data link layer concerned with coding / encoding of signals.


    What is SFP?

    SFP is Small Form Factor Pluggable

    Explain FC login process?

    Fibre Channel logins takes place after a link is operational. There are three
    different types of logins in Fibre Channel technology:
    Fabric Login (FLOGI)
    Port Login (PLOGI)
    Process Login (PRLI)
    In the Login process different operational parameters are exchanged:
    FC-PH version support
    Classes of service supported
    Frame size
    Type of ACK supported: single frame, multiple frame
    Number of buffer credits
    Addressing
    Time out values: E D TOV and R A TOV
    Error recovery policies
    Number of sequences

    What is storage virtualization?

    Storage virtualization is a concept in IT System Administration, referring to the


    abstraction (separation) of logical storage from physical storage so that it may be
    accessed without regard to physical storage or heterogeneous structure. This
    separation allows the Systems Admin increased flexibility in how they manage
    storage for end users

    What are advantages of iSCSI?

    • Utilise your existing network


    * Traditional servers can be replaced by smaller cheaper low cost servers.
    * Adding more storage, no longer needs the servers to be taken down for
    upgrades.
    * Servers run more efficiently as they have less to manage internally.
    * Use non-proprietary storage SATA, SAS, SCSI, FC etc.
    * When replacing servers the data no longer needs to be backed up and restored.
    Just snapshot the data and re-mount the storage to the new server.
    * Reduced maintenance costs
    * Utilises all your disk storage and takes the guess work out of how much is
    required
    * Reduced management costs, as additional disk space can be easily added to the
    servers

    What is the difference between point to point & switched fabric in FC?

    Point to point connection is limited to two ports only where as switched fabric is used
    upto 2^24 devices and in switched fabic director switch is used to manage the remaining
    ports

    What is differences betweenFiber Channal (FC) & iSCSI?

    Fibre Channel, or FC, is high performance network technology primarily used for storage
    networking. Fibre channal communicate between computer devices at data rare of 4Gbps,
    8Gbps and 10Gbps.

    iSCSI uses TCP/IP (typically TCP ports 860 and 3260). In essence, iSCSI simply allows
    two hosts to negotiate and then exchange SCSI commands using IP networks.
    iSCSI (for "Internet SCSI") protocol allows clients (called initiators) to send SCSI
    commands (CDBs) to SCSI storage devices (targets) on remote servers.

    What is Fiber channel?

    Fibre Channel, or FC, is high performance network technology primarily used for storage
    networking. Fibre channal communicate between computer devices at data rare of 4Gbps,
    8Gbps and 10Gbps. Fibre chanaal offers point to point, switched fabric and arbitrated
    loop topology to configure storage network.

    What is WWPN and WWNN?

    WWPN - World Wide Port Number.

    WWNN - World Wide Node Number.

    What are the maximum devices supported in each topologies of FC?


    Point to point -> Max of 2 devices
    Fibre Channel - Arbitrated Loop -> Max of 127 devices
    Fibre Channel - Switched Fabric -> Max of 2^24 devices

    When should I deploy Fiber channel instead of iSCSI?

    when an Enterprise class datacentre requires high perfomance and reliability of the data
    we go for fiber channel. It scales for longer distances tooo.

    How Fiber channel is different from iSCSI?

    data flow in FC will be optical protocol is FCIP and iSCSI will be electrical and protocol
    is iSCSI.

    What are advantages of iSCSI?

    • Utilise your existing network


    * Traditional servers can be replaced by smaller cheaper low cost servers.
    * Adding more storage, no longer needs the servers to be taken down for
    upgrades.
    * Servers run more efficiently as they have less to manage internally.
    * Use non-proprietary storage SATA, SAS, SCSI, FC etc.
    * When replacing servers the data no longer needs to be backed up and restored.
    Just snapshot the data and re-mount the storage to the new server.
    * Reduced maintenance costs
    * Utilises all your disk storage and takes the guess work out of how much is
    required
    * Reduced management costs, as additional disk space can be easily added to the
    servers

    What is differences betweenFiber Channal (FC) & iSCSI?

    Fibre Channel, or FC, is high performance network technology primarily used for storage
    networking. Fibre channal communicate between computer devices at data rare of 4Gbps,
    8Gbps and 10Gbps.

    iSCSI uses TCP/IP (typically TCP ports 860 and 3260). In essence, iSCSI simply allows
    two hosts to negotiate and then exchange SCSI commands using IP networks.
    iSCSI (for "Internet SCSI") protocol allows clients (called initiators) to send SCSI
    commands (CDBs) to SCSI storage devices (targets) on remote servers.

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