Fibre Channel Fabrics: Evaluation and Design

  • Authors:
  • Ludmila Cherkasova;Vadim Kotov;Tomas Rokicki

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • HICSS '96 Proceedings of the 29th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Volume 1: Software Technology and Architecture
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

We consider how Fibre Channel switches can be cascaded to form a Fibre Channel fabric. We begin with an analytical model of topology performance that provides a theoretical upper bound on fabric performance and a method for the practical evaluation of fabric topologies. We then consider the prevention of buffer-cycle deadlock in Fibre Channel networks. We show that though some topologies implicitly do not deadlock, these topologies have inferior throughput, and we present a technique for optimizing performance that takes into account both deadlock and traffic balancing.