HP A7446B Converged fabrics: Emerging technologies for simplifying data center - Page 1

Converged fabrics: Emerging technologies for simplifying data center infrastructure technology brief Abstract...2 Introduction ...2 Traditional data center topology ...2 Converged fabrics with 10 Gigabit Ethernet 3 iSCSI ...3 Fibre Channel over Ethernet ...4 FCoE for convergence in the data center 5 Migrating to converged fabrics...5 Data center bridging ...6 Virtualization in converged networks...8 Server virtualization...8 NIC virtualization...8 Flex-10 for Virtual Connect...8 Summary ...9 For more information...9 Call to action ...9