What is Hop in SAN fabric?
Hop When Fibre Channel traffic is going from one E_Port over an ISL to another E_Port, is one hop. ISLs are made by connecting an E_Port to an E_Port. There is a hop count...
SAN fundamentals
What are the well known addresses in Fibre Channel?
A well-known address is a reserved address for each Fibre channel service. Each address provides it’s respective service. Well known addresses and its services are Address Service Name Function FFFFFE Fabric login Fabric login...
RAID
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks or Redundant Array of Independent Disks. What is Raid? RAID is a storage virtualization technology that combines multiple small physical disks into a single large logical...
Fibre vs Fiber in SAN
Fibre vs Fiber: Fibre Channel was designed to support fiber optic cabling only. But industry also started using copper cables later to avoid the damage due to heat produced in storage systems. The committee...