Meanings of fibre channel in English

Blkback then reads or writes the requested blocks through dom0's block device driver (which can be a SCSI driver, IDE, fibre channel, etc.

Historically, a SAN used Fibre Channel, and a LAN used Ethernet and IP.

I installed into that server two existing Fibre Channel cards and two SCSI cards.

That SCSI may be running on top of Fibre Channel or IP-butit's still SCSI.

It's like a Fibre Channel array calling itself NAS because it is storage attached to a network.

In comparison, a high-end 15,000-rpm Fibre Channel drive maxes out at 200 IOPS.

The company also partnered with VMware and Cisco to offer Fibre Channel over Ethernet certified networks for virtual server environments.

The consolidation has led to reduced demand for power and cooling while simplifying the company's Fibre Channel infrastructure and network, Miles said.

The FCoE protocol works by wrapping Fibre Channel packets in Ethernet headers to send them over traditional Ethernet networks while preserving the Fibre Channel protocol.