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Encyclopedia > Fibre Channel fabric

A Fibre Channel fabric is a network of Fibre Channel devices enabled by a Fibre Channel switch using the FC-SW topology. Fabrics are normally subdivided by Fibre Channel zoning. Each fabric has a name server and provides other services. Fibre Channel is a serial computer bus intended for connecting high-speed storage devices to computers. ... A wide variety of systems of interconnected components are called networks. ... A Fibre Channel switch is a computer storage device that allows the creation of a Fibre Channel fabric. ... Fibre Channel zoning has a similar meaning to other uses of the word - it focuses certain groups of resources together. ...


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Fibre Channel Topologies (654 words)
Fibre Channel is a serial data transfer interface that operates over copper wire and/or optical fiber at data rates up to 100 MB/second.
A Fibre Channel fabric is a switched network, providing a set of generic, low-level services onto which host channel architectures and network architectures can be mapped.
Implementation of the Fibre Channel interface is handled at the HBA driver and hardware level, so configuration of devices at the host is the same for SCSI or Fibre Channel.
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