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FCIA Enhances Standard for Converged Data Center Storage Networks

To technologies such as FCoE

The Fiber Channel Industry Association (FCIA) announced that the T11 Technical Committeehttp://www.t11.org/index.html made significant enhancements to the widely-adopted FC Backbone – 5 (FC-BB-5) standard in order to foster converged storage network technologies such as FCoE (FCoE).

In December 2013, the FC-BB-6 working group finalized the FC-BB-6 standard, which complements and advances the existing FC-BB-5 standard, and forwarded the final specification to the InterNational Committee on Information Technology Standards (INCITS), for publication in Q3, 2014.
 
FC-BB-6 represents the ongoing evolution of the FC technology to leverage ubiquitous datacenter resources such as Ethernet,” said Dr. J Metz, FCIA board of directors. “As we move towards more creative and flexible solutions inside the datacenter this fosters the applicability of FC as a protocol for deterministic storage requirements.”

While preserving compatibility with functionality defined in the FC-BB-5 standard,
FC-BB-6 provides  following enhancements:

  • Support for VN2VN Connectivity – The VN2VN functionality enables the establishment of direct point-to-point virtual links between nodes in an FCoE network. This enables simpler configurations for smaller environments. Zoning may be not needed in these network designs, resulting in lower complexity and cost.
  • Support for Domain_ID Scalability – With FC-BB-6, FCoE fabrics can use Domain_IDs more efficiently, which enables larger converged network SANs. FC-BB-6 fully defines how to support the deployment of the Distributed Switch architecture (currently in the final stages of development in the T11 FC-SW-6 working group) over Ethernet.

FC is a proven protocol for networked datacenter storage that just got better,” said Greg Schulz, founder, StorageIO. “The FC-BB-6 standard helps to unlock the potential of the FC protocol that can be implemented on traditional FC as well as via Ethernet based networks. This means FC-BB-6 enabled FC protocol based networks provide flexibility, scalability and secure high-performance resilient storage networks to be implemented.”
 
FCIA also recently launched a Knowledge Vault designed to be a resource for IT executives who are interested in learning more on how FC can deliver greater business value. It’s a repository of professional videos and an assortment of collateral that reinforces why FC is the purpose-built and proven network infrastructure for storage, engineered to meet the demands of enterprise data centers.

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