Part 2: Converged Networking and Storage

This video is part of the appearance, "Brocade Virtual Symposium 2012". It was recorded as part of Brocade Virtual Symposium 2012 at 13:00-15:00 on May 2, 2012.

Part 2 of the Virtual Symposium turns to the topic of convergence. The delegates discuss the core questions of convergence:

What’s stopping convergence and what’s driving it?
Who owns responsibility organizationally?
What protocols (Fibre Channel, FCoE, iSCSI, or even NFS) “count”?
Contrasting the financial benefits with the management complexity.
A discussion of other protocols (especially iSCSI) over lossless-Ethernet (DCB)
Comparison of buffer credit mechanisms (as in Fibre Channel) with pause mechanisms (in DCB Ethernet)
Demands on Ethernet hardware design to support converged traffic (less over-subscription, larger buffers, etc)
The heavy demands placed by solid state storage on storage networks
The role of Ethernet fabrics in converged networks
The challenge of ETS (802.1Qaz) and DCBX for storage vendors
Considering the difficulty of implementing congestion notification (802.1Qau) in network hardware

Join Chip Copper of Brocade and the following Tech Field Day delegates as they discuss this question.

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