Ethernet and the upper layer protocols are designed to handle packet loss and variable delay between packets. Fibre Channel, which is just SCSI over a network, needs a stable, lossless connection to work.The Data Center Bridging (DCB) standards define how Ethernet can be lossless, but choke points and congestion can wreak havoc on storage traffic by adding delay and jitter to FCoE. Multi-path...
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Ethernet and the upper layer protocols are designed to handle packet loss and variable delay between packets. Fibre Channel, which is just SCSI over a network, needs a stable, lossless connection to work.The Data Center Bridging (DCB) standards define how Ethernet can be lossless, but choke points and congestion can wreak havoc on storage traffic by adding delay and jitter to FCoE. Multi-path Ethernet using Fabric Shortest Path First, TRILL, or Shortest Path Bridging, finds the shortest path and load balances traffic over multiple Ethernet links reducing congestion and making better use of your Ethernet capacity. Multi-path Ethernet can have significant impact on the product selections you can add to your FCoE fabric as well as the management and operations of your data and storage network. In this session, we will describe the commonality of multi-path Ethernet protocols, the differences, and the impact to integration and management.