Cisco MDS 9000 Series 16Gbps Fabric Switches – Cisco Data Center Storage Concepts
Cisco MDS 9000 Series 16Gbps Fabric Switches The two 16Gbps fabric switches are the Cisco MDS 9148S and Cisco MDS 9396S switches, which are…
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Fibre Channel Storage Networking – Cisco Data Center Storage Concepts
Fibre Channel Storage Networking The SAN fabrics are built from the initiators (servers), the targets (storage systems), and the Fibre Channel switches. The SAN…
Fibre Channel Topologies – Cisco Data Center Storage Concepts
Fibre Channel Topologies The SAN fabrics are built based on three physical topologies: Figure 10-12 shows the different SAN topologies. Figure 10-12 FC…
Server Message Block (SMB)/Common Internet File System (CIFS) – Cisco Data Center Storage Concepts
Server Message Block (SMB)/Common Internet File System (CIFS) The Server Message Block (SMB), later renamed and commonly referred to as the Common Internet File…