Tag: SAN Basics
7.2 Importance of Cache technique in Block Based Storage Systems
Cache is a semiconductor memory where data is placed temporarily to reduce the time required to service I/O requests from the hosts. Cache improves...
7.1 Block Based Storage Systems (SAN) Overview
A block-based storage system is the traditional storage systems which provides hosts with block-level access to the storage volumes. In this type of storage...
6.5 FCoE Architecture
The data in FCoE is sent through FCoE frames. An FCoE frame is an Ethernet frame that contains an FCoE Protocol Data Unit (PDU)....
6.3 Introduction to Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) SAN
As discussed in previous 2 posts, traditional Data Centers typically have multiple networks to handle various types of network traffic for example, an Ethernet...
6.2 Functions of Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE)
Conventional Ethernet is lossy in nature, which means that frames might be dropped or lost under congestion conditions. Therefore, Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) provides...
6.1 The need for a Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) Network
In today's data center environment, we generally have at least two major networks - Ethernet network and Fibre Channel network. Ethernet is used for transferring regular management traffic...