Cloud

Question 1

Fibre Channel

Answer 1

High speed technology to transmit data at rates up to 16Gbps. Commonly used with enterprise level SAN

Question 2

FC-P2P

Answer 2

Fibre Channel Point-to-point. Devices connected directly together

Question 3

FC-AL

Answer 3

Fibre Channel Abritrated Loop. Devices in loop or ring. Interrupted when device moves or fails

Question 4

FC-SW

Answer 4

Fibre Channel Switched Fabric. Devices/loops of devices connected to fibre channel switches, similar to ethernet.

Question 5

iSCSI

Answer 5

IP based storage networking. Used with smaller scale SAN

Question 6

FCoE

Answer 6

Fibre Channel over Ethernet

Question 7

Infiniband

Answer 7

Fast I/O channel using a messaging service. Data accessed directly instead of through a server. Infiniband swtiches connect HCAs (host channel adapters) to TCAs (target channel adapters)

Question 8

Jumbo frame

Answer 8

Ethernet frame with payload greater than normal MTU. Used in LAN supporting at least 1Gbps. Up to 9000 bytes