I/O Consolidation in the Data Center (Paperback)

Using Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and related technologies, data centers can consolidate data traffic onto a single network switch, simplifying their environments, promoting virtualization, and substantially reducing power and cooling costs. This emerging technology is drawing immense excitement, but few enterprise IT decision-makers and implementers truly understand it. I/O Consolidation in the Data Center is the only complete, up-to-date guide to FCoE. FCoE innovators Silvano Gai and Claudio DeSanti (chair of the T11 FCoE standards working group) systematically explain the technology: its benefits, tradeoffs, and what it will take to implement it successfully in production environments. Unlike most other discussions of FCoE, this book fully reflects the final, recently-approved industry standard. The authors also present five detailed case studies illustrating typical FCoE adoption scenarios, as well as an extensive Q and A section addressing the issues enterprise IT professionals raise most often. This is a fully updated version of Silvano Gai's privately-published book on FCoE, written for leading FCoE pioneer Nuova Systems before the company was acquired by Cisco. Nearly 12,000 copies of that book have already been distributed, demonstrating the immense interest in FCoE technology, and the scarcity of reliable information that has existed about it.

使用以太網上的光纖通道（FCoE）和相關技術，數據中心可以將數據流量整合到一個網絡交換機上，簡化環境，促進虛擬化，並大幅降低電力和冷卻成本。這項新興技術引起了極大的興奮，但很少有企業IT決策者和實施者真正理解它。《數據中心中的I/O整合》是唯一一本完整且最新的FCoE指南。FCoE創新者Silvano Gai和Claudio DeSanti（T11 FCoE標準工作組主席）系統地解釋了這項技術：它的好處、權衡以及在生產環境中成功實施所需的條件。與大多數其他關於FCoE的討論不同，本書完全反映了最終獲得批准的行業標準。作者還提供了五個詳細的案例研究，說明了典型的FCoE採用情景，以及一個廣泛的問答部分，回答了企業IT專業人士最常提出的問題。這是Silvano Gai在被Cisco收購之前為領先的FCoE先驅Nuova Systems私下出版的書的全面更新版本。該書已經發行了近12,000本，顯示了對FCoE技術的巨大興趣，以及對它存在的可靠信息的稀缺性。