Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is the proposed industry standard being developed by an ecosystem of Fibre Channel and networking product vendors to drive network convergence in the enterprise data center. The technology will map native Fibre Channel traffic onto Ethernet frames, and be capable of benefiting from proposed enhancements to Ethernet. FCoE's Ethernet compatibility will leverage the ubiquity and economics of Ethernet networks while preserving the infrastructure, strengths, and tools of the existing Fibre Channel storage management framework.
What Is VMware Storage vMotion?
VMware Storage vMotion enables the live migration of running virtual machine disk files within and across storage arrays. Building on the success of VMware vMotion a production proven technology used for the live migration of virtual machines Storage vMotion relocates virtual machine disk files from one shared storage location to another shared storage location. It achieves this with zero downtime, continuous service availability and complete transaction integrity. Storage vMotion enables organizations to perform proactive storage migrations, simplify array refreshes/retirements, improve virtual machine storage performance and free up valuable storage capacity.
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel, or FC, is high performance network technology primarily used for storage networking. Fibre channal communicate between computer devices at data rare of 4Gbps, 8Gbps and 10Gbps. Fibre chanaal offers point to point, switched fabric and arbitrated loop topology to configure storage network.
Fibre Channel is standardized in the T11 Technical Committee of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS), an American National Standards Institute (ANSI)–accredited standards committee. It started use primarily in the supercomputer field, but has become the standard connection type for storage area networks (SAN) in enterprise storage. Despite its name, Fibre Channel signaling can run on both twisted pair copper wire and fiber-
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