Chapter 7. Implement Fibre Channel
The main purpose of data centers is to provide the resources required to run applications and securely store data. As enterprises of every size move to digitize their businesses and adapt to new cloud-native workloads while preserving support for well-established applications, they need to rely on a storage network with no compromises. Most enterprise applications count on relational databases and block storage to host their data. In this context, Fibre Channel networking devices are the preferred choice for connecting computational resources to data repositories in the form of disk arrays and tape libraries. Even today, with a variety of file- and object-based storage solutions on the market and the block-based ...
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