As mentioned in an earlier thread, I have some spare 4Gbps Fibre Channel cards from Emulex (LPe11000/11002) and QLogic (QLA2460), together with some fibre optic cables. As my initial plan of building ...

Fibre Channel is the king of enterprise storage-area-network technologies. ISCSI, however, is the heir apparent. When it comes to new SANs, add-ons to existing systems or departmental-level ...

Storage networking hardware includes three basic components: host adapters, storage targets and switch interconnects. In traditional SANs, these basic building blocks have been based on Fibre Channel ...

Brocade Monday unveiled Fibre Channel management tools aimed at easing the use of the storage protocol as customers increasingly adopt 16-Gbps Fibre Channel technology. The new management tools are ...