FCP

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FCP (Fibre Channel Protocol) is a transport protocol that maps SCSI commands over Fibre Channel networks, commonly used for high-speed storage area networking in enterprise systems.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Fibre Channel protocol
transport protocol
abbreviationOf Fibre Channel
surface form: Fibre Channel Protocol
acknowledgmentMechanism uses SCSI status and Fibre Channel exchanges
addressing uses SCSI addressing within Fibre Channel frames
benefit high throughput for block storage
low latency storage access
offloaded storage traffic from IP networks
commandSet SCSI primary commands
competesWith FCoE
iSCSI
dataIntegrity relies on Fibre Channel CRC and SCSI checks
definedIn Fibre Channel
surface form: Fibre Channel Framing and Signaling standards
deploymentScale large enterprise SANs
domain storage networking
encapsulates SCSI command descriptor blocks
SCSI sense data
SCSI status information
fullName Fibre Channel
surface form: Fibre Channel Protocol
interoperatesWith Fibre Channel
surface form: Fibre Channel HBAs

Fibre Channel disk arrays
Cisco MDS
surface form: Fibre Channel switches
layer upper-layer protocol over Fibre Channel
maps SCSI commands
operatesAt Fibre Channel link speeds such as 1 Gbit/s
Fibre Channel link speeds such as 16 Gbit/s
Fibre Channel link speeds such as 2 Gbit/s
Fibre Channel link speeds such as 32 Gbit/s
Fibre Channel link speeds such as 4 Gbit/s
Fibre Channel link speeds such as 8 Gbit/s
OSIModelLayer primarily transport of SCSI at Fibre Channel layers 2–4 equivalent
payloadType SCSI command and data payloads
reliabilityFeatures uses Fibre Channel flow control and error recovery
runsOver Fibre Channel
standardFamily T11 Fibre Channel standards
standardizedBy INCITS
supports SCSI
surface form: SCSI-2

SCSI
surface form: SCSI-3

Serial Attached SCSI devices via Fibre Channel infrastructure
topologySupport Fibre Channel arbitrated loop
Fibre Channel
surface form: Fibre Channel switched fabric
transportRole carries SCSI over Fibre Channel
typicalSectorSizeSupport 512-byte and 4K logical block sizes via SCSI
typicalUseCase connecting servers to disk arrays
connecting servers to tape libraries
usedFor block storage transport
storage area networks
usedIn data centers
enterprise storage systems

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