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Fibre Channel Protocols

PROTOCOL

Definition

 is the special set of rules that end points in a telecommunication connection use

when they communicate.


BASICS
 Transmission control protocol , which uses a set of rules to exchange
messages with other Internet points at the information packet level.

 Internet procotol (IP), which uses a set of rules to send and receive messages
at the Internet address level.

 Additional protocols that include the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)


and File Transfer protocol (FTP), each with defined sets of rules to use with
corresponding programs elsewhere on the Internet
PROTOCOLS

 FCP – fibre channel protocol

 FCIP – fibre channel frame over internet protocol

 IFCP – internet fibre channel protocol

 ISCSI – internet small computer system interface

 FICON – fibre connectivity


FCP - Fibre Channel Protocol

 The Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) is the interface protocol of SCSI on Fiber
Channel.

 It is a gigabit speed network technology primarily used for Storage Networking.

 It started for use primarily in the supercomputer field, Despite its name, Fibre
Channel signaling can run on both twisted-pair copper wire and fiber optic
cables.
LAYERS
LAYERS

 FC-0 -- The interface to the physical media

 FC-1 -- encoding and decoding of data

 FC-2 -- transfer of frames.

 FC-3 -- Common Services required for advanced features.

 FC-4 -- Application interfaces that can execute over fibre channel such as
the fibre channel protocol for SCSI (FCP).
FCIP - Fibre Channel Frames over internet protocol

 Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) is also known as Fiber Channel tunneling or


storage tunneling.

 FCIP encapsulates Fibre Channel block data and subsequently transports it


over a TCP socket.

 TCP/IP services are utilized to establish connectivity between remote SANs.


Frames and stacks
 Common fields:
 Protocol# - IANA-assigned protocol number identifying the protocol using
the encapsulation.
 Version - Encapsulation version as specified in [ENCAP]
 -Protocol# - One's complement of the protocol#
 -Version - One's complement of the version
 Flags - Encapsulation flags
 Frame Length - Contains the length of the entire FC Encapsulated frame including the
FC Encapsulation Header and the FC frame (including SOF and EOF words) in units of
32-bit words.
 -Flags - One's complement of the Flags field.
 -Frame Length - One's complement of the Frame Length field.
 Time Stamp [integer] - Integer component of the frame time stamp as specified in
[ENCAP].
 Time Stamp - Fractional component of the time stamp [fraction] as specified in
[ENCAP].
 CRC - Header CRC. MUST be valid for iFCP.
IFCP - Internet fibre channel protocol

 Internet Fibre Channel Protocol (iFCP) is a mechanism for transmitting data


to and from Fiber Channel storage devices in a SAN, or on the Internet using
TCP/IP.

 iFCP gives the ability to incorporate already existing SCSI and Fiber Channel
networks into the Internet.

 iFCP is able to be used in tandem with existing Fibre Channel protocols, such
as FCIP, or it can replace them.
Layers

 The iFCP layer processes the following types of traffic:

 FC-4 frame images associated with a fibre channel application protocol.

 FC-2 frames comprising fibre channel link service requests and responses .

 Fibre channel broadcast frames .

 iFCP control messages required to setup, manage or terminate an iFCP session.


Frames
ISCSI - Internet small computer system interface

 Internet SCSI (iSCSI) is a transport protocol that carries SCSI commands


from an initiator to a target.

 the standard Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)


networking technology.

 iSCSI enables the implementation of IP-based storage area networks (SANs


just for storage, iSCSI has the potential to lower the costs of deploying
networked storage.
Frames:
iSCSI PDU structure:
iSCSI BHS Format
 I - For request PDUs, the I bit set to 1 is an immediate delivery marker.

 Opcode - The Opcode indicates the type of iSCSI PDU the header encapsulates.

 Final (F) bit - When set to 1 it indicates the final (or only) PDU of a sequence.

 Opcode-specific Fields - These fields have different meanings for different


opcode types.

 TotalAHSLength - Total length of all AHS header segments in units of four byte
words including padding, if any.
 DataSegmentLength - This is the data segment payload length in bytes
(excluding padding)

 LUN - Some opcodes operate on a specific Logical Unit.

 Initiator Task Tag - The initiator assigns a Task Tag to each iSCSI task it issues
FICON Fiber connectivity
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FICON

 FICON architecture is an enhancement of, rather than a replacement for, the


now relatively old ESCON® architecture.

 FICON is a prerequisite for z/OS systems to fully participate in a


heterogeneous SAN.

 where the SAN switch devices allow the mixture of open systems and
mainframe traffic.
 FICON is a protocol that uses Fibre Channel as its physical medium.

 FICON channels are capable of data rates up to 200 MBps full duplex,

 they extend the channel distance (up to 100 km.


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