Fibre Channel over Ethernet Application

The main application of FCoE is in data center storage area networks (SANs). FCoE has particular application in data centers due to the cabling reduction it makes possible, as well as in server virtualization applications, which often require many physical I/O connections per server.

With FCoE, network (IP) and storage (SAN) data traffic can be consolidated using a single network. This consolidation can:

reduce the number of network interface cards required to connect to disparate storage and IP networks;

reduce the number of cables and switches;

reduce power and cooling costs.

July 4, 2011

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