Fibre Channel Performance: Congestion, Slow Drain, and Over-Utilization, Oh My!

Today’s Fibre Channel SANs are tasked with reliably delivering huge amounts of data with almost zero latency in an environment with a large variance of end device capabilities. Fibre Channel is a lossless network protocol, but what are the ramifications? What is considered a good SAN design and what are best practices? What situations can lead to suboptimal performance? How can a device that is not performing well affect the performance of devices even on different parts of the SAN? Can a device that is returning credits without delay affect the SAN just like a device that is returning credits slowly? This webcast provides the answers to these questions and more.
Presented by Ed Mazurek, Cisco; Earl Apellanes, Broadcom; David J. Rodgers, Teledyne LeCroy