Lesson 7. Fibre Channel NetworkingFibre Channel is the protocol used for data transfer due to its high speed and provisions for high availability. It is essentially the classic SCSI protocol, mixed with an address-based networking system, so that multiple hosts can be online and request and send data to and from storage devices. A speed of 2 Gbits per second is used with all Xsan elements, which yields a theoretical limit of 200 MB/s for transmission and reception, for a total of 400 MB/s per cable. There are two kinds of entities in Fibre Channel networking:
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