I/O Consolidation in the Data Center [Paperback]

Silvano Gai (Author), Claudio DeSanti (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 158705888X | ISBN-13: 978-1587058882 | Publication Date: September 18, 2009 | Edition: 1

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.

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About the Author

Silvano Gai, who grew up in a small village near Asti, Italy, has more than 27 years of experience

in computer engineering and computer networks. He is the author of several books and technical

publications on computer networking and multiple Internet Drafts and RFCs. He is responsible

for 30 issued patents and 50 patent applications. His background includes 7 years as a full

professor of computer engineering, tenure track, at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and seven years

as a researcher at the CNR (Italian National Council for Scientifi c Research). For the past 12

years, he has been in Silicon Valley where, in the position of Cisco Fellow, he was an architect

of the Cisco Catalyst family of network switches, of the Cisco MDS family of storage networking

switches, and of the Nexus family of data center switches. Silvano teaches a course on I/O

Consolidation, Data Center Ethernet, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet at Stanford University

(see http://scpd.stanford.edu/certifi cates/fcoe).

 

 

Claudio DeSanti is a Distinguished Engineer in the Advanced Architectures & Research organization

at Cisco. He represents Cisco in several National and International Standards Bodies,

such as INCITS Technical Committee T11, IEEE 802.1, IETF, and in industry associations. He

is vice chairman of the INCITS T11 Technical Committee, chairperson of various working

groups, including FC-BB-5, where FCoE has been developed, and technical editor of different

standards, including IEEE 802.1Qbb, where Priority-based Flow Control is defi ned. He is

author of several patents and international publications, including ten RFCs in IETF and other

standards in the American National Standard Institute. He received many honors and awards,

including the INCITS 2008 Technical Excellence Award, the INCITS 2007 Team Award, and the

INCITS 2006 Gene Milligan Award for Effective Committee Management. Claudio’s research

interests include network protocols, storage networking, routing, and security. He holds a Ph.D.

in computer engineering from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy.

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Cisco Press; 1 edition (September 18, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158705888X
• ISBN-13: 978-1587058882
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #569,253 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FCOE and Data center Ethernet Explained !, May 28, 2011

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Nicolas Michel (France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I/O Consolidation in the Data Center (Paperback)

If you are like me and need to understand the FCoE protocol, this book is really nice and I highly recommend it.

The book is short but very concise and goes straight to the points that you need to really know.
The begining of the book is focusing on the technology that you will find in a DC : L2MP, VSS, vPC etc etc .

Then you ll really dig into FCoE. Everything is there. Really there is nothing else to say about this book. you have to read it for sur if you work in a DC environment or want to learn about this technology.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very well explained with great diagrams., May 8, 2011

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This review is from: I/O Consolidation in the Data Center (Paperback)

This book along with the UCS book make a perfect pair for a solid knowledge of data center networking and Cisco UCS systems.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The first book to explain the recently approved Fibre Channel over Ethernet standard and its technologies, December 13, 2009

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A key choice is Silvano Gai and Claudio DeSanti's I/O CONSOLIDATION IN THE DATA CENTER, the first book to explain the recently approved Fibre Channel over Ethernet standard and its technologies. I/O consolidation combines multiple traffic types and each usually has special handling requirements: this book offers insights into consolidating these into a single Data Center Ethernet network and is key for any advanced programming library.