It's worth noting that Fibre Channel can absolutely use copper by using FC DACs. It's much less common than the fiber implementations and the distance is much more sensitive to signal degradation but FC isn't restricted to just fiber.
I've built an ESXi system with two hosts, two FC storage units connected each to two FC switches. In generall each ESXI and each storage are each connected to "each" FC switch. I can lose 50% of my system and still continue working. Everything works great, but recently a question rose up, if it would be beneficial to connect the FC switches to each other. What do you think? As always, great video! Thx for all the knowledge.
Hello, thank you for reaching out! No, in general the FC switches should not be cross connected. In the datacenter we refer to this as a SAN A and SAN B design. The idea is to have two completely isolated FC fabrics. The switches should remain air gapped.
Hi @0ADVISOR0 and @cbtnuggets, First of all thank for sharing this inspiring information about your Lab. I'm also building a Fiber Channel Home Lab, I've already purchased a MDS Switch 9134, a Dell Poweredge r720xd with ESXI and a new HP microserver with Qlogic Fc adapter. Could you please have any advice (config, spec, ...) to share with me in order to build this lab properly ? Thank you advance.
I have a AG638B HP Storageworks 12 Bay Disk Enclosure Fiber channel for EVA RAID Arrays connected directly to an ATTO CTFC-82EN-000 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter. Can this work for jbod if so how?
i think this is the clearest explanation of Fibre Channel out there.... thank you CBT Nuggets
Thank you for explaining this 🙏
Great video! I'm looking more into the data center world as a network engineer myself, and these small tidbits are great to watch.
Thank you for learning with us!
It's worth noting that Fibre Channel can absolutely use copper by using FC DACs. It's much less common than the fiber implementations and the distance is much more sensitive to signal degradation but FC isn't restricted to just fiber.
Great video 👍 for intro to Fibre Channel. Thank you.
good video
there's also NVMeoF besides FCP , both run on the same FC fabric
I've built an ESXi system with two hosts, two FC storage units connected each to two FC switches. In generall each ESXI and each storage are each connected to "each" FC switch. I can lose 50% of my system and still continue working. Everything works great, but recently a question rose up, if it would be beneficial to connect the FC switches to each other. What do you think? As always, great video! Thx for all the knowledge.
Hello, thank you for reaching out! No, in general the FC switches should not be cross connected. In the datacenter we refer to this as a SAN A and SAN B design. The idea is to have two completely isolated FC fabrics. The switches should remain air gapped.
@@cbtnuggets Hi, Thanks for the reply! So basically you confirmed, that everything's how It's supposed to be! Thanks!
Hi @0ADVISOR0 and @cbtnuggets,
First of all thank for sharing this inspiring information about your Lab.
I'm also building a Fiber Channel Home Lab, I've already purchased a MDS Switch 9134, a Dell Poweredge r720xd with ESXI and a new HP microserver with Qlogic Fc adapter.
Could you please have any advice (config, spec, ...) to share with me in order to build this lab properly ?
Thank you advance.
Great video!
Thanks good video
I have a AG638B HP Storageworks 12 Bay Disk Enclosure Fiber channel for EVA RAID Arrays connected directly to an ATTO CTFC-82EN-000 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter. Can this work for jbod if so how?
Power of concept mentioned in 4:20
Yet you say 1/2/4/8/16
Power or 2 would be:
1/2/4/16/256…
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