Fiber Channel Storage Area Networks White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Unified I/O in VMware ESX servers deliver many cost and power savings advantages.

Posted: 02 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008

WHITE PAPER: The advent of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE), Data Center Bridging (DCB), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)offers enhanced performance and throughput for connecting networked storage to servers. Whether using the Internet SCSI (iSCSI) or Fibre Channel protocols, organizations have a clear path for unifying a network fabric in 10GbE environments.

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines the many data storage challenges facing the IT staff at today's midsize enterprises and discusses how IP-based networked storage can help them overcome these challenges.

Posted: 08 Jun 2007 | Published: 01 Mar 2007

WHITE PAPER: The focus of this article is to discuss what application developers need to know to enable their IP, SCSI, iSCSI, sockets or file system based applications to operate over InfiniBand.

Posted: 04 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Dec 2007

WHITE PAPER: Discover how you can get the best of both SAN storage worlds. Download this white paper to learn about a solution that brings together the high performance and reliability of Fibre Channel and the low cost and versatility of iSCSI.

Posted: 16 Aug 2007 | Published: 10 Aug 2007

WHITE PAPER: InfiniBand defines an industry-standard implementation of remote direct memory access, protocols and kernel bypass to minimize CPU overhead allowing computing resources to be fully used on application processing rather than network communication.

Posted: 04 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Dec 2007

WHITE PAPER: Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage systems are not delivering the price-performance and agility at the storage layer required to keep up with the new virtualized compute layer. This paper explores a third storage networking technology, Ethernet SAN, and why you don’t have to choose between iSCSI and Fibre Channel.

Posted: 05 May 2011 | Published: 29 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Maintaining peak performance while simultaneously addressing the root cause of SAN errors is challenging. This paper presents a high level summary of the most common SAN problems and explores new ways to dramatically improve application performance and availability.

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 | Published: 01 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is gaining popularity in small SAN environments. Read this white paper to learn about SAS zoning and how it helps IT administrators create more flexible, scalable and efficient server networks that meet their business needs.

Posted: 06 Oct 2005 | Published: 01 Sep 2005

WHITE PAPER: This document provides a detailed overview of using EMC Celerra with VMware vSphere 4. VMware vSphere is an infrastructure virtualization suite that provides virtualization, management, resource optimization, application availability, and operational automation capabilities in an integrated package.

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 | Published: 01 May 2009