What is included with this book?
I/O Consolidation | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 1 |
What Is I/O Consolidation | p. 2 |
Merging the Requirements | p. 3 |
Why I/O Consolidation Has Not Yet Been Successful | p. 4 |
Fundamental Technologies | p. 5 |
PCI-Express | p. 5 |
10 Gigabit Ethernet | p. 5 |
Additional Requirements | p. 8 |
Buffering Requirements | p. 8 |
Layer 2 Only | p. 9 |
Switch Architecture | p. 9 |
Low Latency | p. 10 |
Native Support for Storage Traffic | p. 11 |
RDMA Support | p. 11 |
Enabling Technologies | p. 15 |
Introduction | p. 15 |
Lossless Ethernet | p. 15 |
PAUSE | p. 15 |
Credits Versus PAUSE | p. 17 |
PAUSE Propagation | p. 18 |
Is Lossless Better? | p. 19 |
Why PAUSE Is Not Widely Deployed | p. 20 |
Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) | p. 20 |
Additionals Components | p. 22 |
DCBX: Data Center Bridging eXchange | p. 22 |
Bandwidth Management | p. 23 |
Congestion Management | p. 25 |
Delayed Drop | p. 26 |
Going Beyond Spanning Tree | p. 28 |
Active-Active Connectivity | p. 32 |
Etherchannel | p. 32 |
Virtual Switching System (VSS) | p. 32 |
virtual Port Channel (vPC) | p. 34 |
Ethernet Host Virtualizer | p. 36 |
Layer 2 Multipath (L2MP) | p. 38 |
Basic Mechanisms in L2MP | p. 40 |
Cisco DBridges | p. 47 |
IETF RBridges and the TRILL Project | p. 51 |
VEB: Virtual Ethernet Bridging | p. 52 |
Server Virtualization | p. 53 |
SR-IOV | p. 54 |
The IEEE Standard Effort | p. 54 |
VEB in the Adapter | p. 55 |
VEB in the Switch | p. 56 |
VNTag | p. 57 |
Fabric Extenders | p. 59 |
VN-Link | p. 60 |
Questions and Answers | p. 63 |
Does FCoE Uses Credits? | p. 63 |
High Availability of PAUSE and Credits | p. 63 |
Queue Size | p. 63 |
Long-Haul | p. 63 |
FECN/BECN | p. 64 |
Configuration | p. 64 |
Bandwidth Prioritization | p. 64 |
Storage Bandwidth | p. 64 |
Cisco DCB/FCoE Support | p. 65 |
10GE NICs | p. 65 |
IP Routing | p. 65 |
Lossless Ethernet Versus Infiniband | p. 66 |
Nomenclature | p. 66 |
Fibre Channel over Ethernet | p. 67 |
Introduction | p. 67 |
Fibre Channel | p. 69 |
Fibre Channel Architectural Models | p. 69 |
FCoE Mapping | p. 73 |
FCoE Architectural Models | p. 73 |
FCoE Benefits | p. 79 |
FCoE Data Plane | p. 80 |
FCoE Topologies | p. 82 |
FCoE Addressing | p. 85 |
FCoE Forwarding | p. 87 |
FPMAs and SPMAs | p. 90 |
FIP: FCoE Initialization Protocol | p. 92 |
FIP Messages | p. 93 |
FIP VLAN Discovery | p. 97 |
FIP Discovery | p. 98 |
FIP Virtual Link Instantiation | p. 103 |
FIP Virtual Link Maintenance | p. 108 |
Converged Network Adapters | p. 10 |
FCoE Open Software | p. 112 |
Network Tools | p. 113 |
FCoE and Virtualization | p. 114 |
Fibre Channel Block I/O | p. 115 |
iSCSI Block I/O | p. 116 |
Moving a VM | p. 117 |
FCoE and Block I/O | p. 117 |
FCoE FAQ | p. 118 |
Is FCoE Routable? | p. 118 |
iSCSI Versus FCoE? | p. 120 |
Does FCoE Require Gateways? | p. 123 |
Case Studies | p. 125 |
Introduction | p. 125 |
I/O Consolidations with Discrete Servers | p. 125 |
Top-of-Rack Consolidated I/O | p. 129 |
Example with Blade Servers | p. 131 |
Updating the Distribution Layer | p. 133 |
Unified Computing System | p. 136 |
Bibliography | p. 139 |
PCI Express | p. 139 |
IEEE 802.3 | p. 139 |
IEEE 802.1 | p. 139 |
Ethernet Improvements | p. 139 |
Fibre Channel | p. 139 |
FCoE | p. 140 |
TRILL | p. 140 |
Virtualization | p. 140 |
Glossary | p. 141 |
Figures | p. 145 |
Tables | p. 149 |
Index | p. 151 |
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