i don’t understand if the technology ‘fibre channel’ is something ‘software’ or something ‘hardware’ (fibre optics connection) ?
Can i create a fibre-channel san using ‘some’ pieces of existent hardware (like old computer with linux or similar) ?
Thanks
Answer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel
At the most basic level it’s a signaling protocol. It can run over copper or fiber. So its a combo of hardware and software. Hardware to terminate and transmit traffic and software to interpret that traffic. In my experience (SMB) it works much like a NIC just a different addressing method and certainly different/more expensive hardware.
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Source : Link , Question Author : stighy , Answer Author : Brent Pabst
