I/O Consolidation in the Data Center: A Complete Guide to Data Center Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet

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Figure 1-1 Current Data Center Architecture 2

Figure 1-2 I/O Consolidation in the Network 3

Figure 1-3 I/O Consolidation in the Servers 4

Figure 1-4 Evolution of Ethernet Physical Media 6

Figure 1-5 Twinax Copper Cable 7

Figure 1-6 SCSI Transports 12

Figure 2-1 Ethernet PAUSE 16

Figure 2-2 PAUSE Frame Format 17

Figure 2-3 Buffer-to-Buffer Credits 18

Figure 2-4 PAUSE Propagation 19

Figure 2-5 IEEE 802.1Q Tag with the Priority Field 20

Figure 2-6 PFC (Priority-based Flow Control) 21

Figure 2-7 PFC Frame Format 21

Figure 2-8 DCBX Deployment 23

Figure 2-9 Priority Groups 24

Figure 2-10 Example of Bandwidth Management 24

Figure 2-11 Congestion Point and Reaction Points 25

Figure 2-12 Backward Signaling 26

Figure 2-13 Delayed Drop ...