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    David Fair

    VN2VN: “Ethernet Only” Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Is Coming

    February 26th, 2013

    The completion of a specification for FCoE (T11 FC-BB-5, 2009) held great promise for unifying storage and LAN over a unified Ethernet network, and now we are seeing the benefits. With FCoE, Fibre Channel protocol frames are encapsulated in Ethernet packets. To achieve the high reliability and “lossless” characteristics of Fibre Channel, Ethernet itself has …Read More

    No Comments » | FCoE, Storage over Ethernet SIG | Permalink
    Posted by David Fair

    AlexMcDonald

    The Advantages of NFSv4.1

    February 19th, 2013

    In a previous blog post Why NFSv4.1 and pNFS are Better than NFSv3 Could Ever Be, some of the issues with NFSv3 that made it difficult to implement as a WAN based or data center wide protocol were discussed. The question then becomes; why not move to NFSv4 instead of NFSv4.1? Isn’t that a bigger …Read More

    No Comments » | File Protocols SIG, NFS | Permalink
    Posted by AlexMcDonald