9.1 Fibre Channel Setup and Status
Fibre Channel (FC) is a high-speed network technology, commonly running at 1,
2, 4, 8, 16 and 20 Gigabit per second rates. It is primarily used to connect
computer data storage.
The Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) is a transport protocol similar to TCP used
in IP networks. FCP predominantly transports SCSI commands over Fibre
Channel networks.
Fibre Channel signaling can run on an electrical interface in addition to fiber-
optic cables.
Fibre Channel has five levels (FC-0 to FC-4), where FC-4 is the uppermost
level and FC-0 the lowermost.
FC Level Name Description
FC-4 Protocol Mapping
Network and channel protocols such
as SCSI-3.
FC-3 Common Services
Encryption, RAID redundancy
algorithms etc.
FC-2 Data Delivery
Framing, flow control protocols and
classes of service.
Core layer of Fibre Channel.
FC-1 Data Encoding/Decoding 8b/10b encoding.
FC-0 Physical layer Fiber optics or copper cabling.
The Fibre Channel interface uses the optical ports.
MU100010A Connector Panel
9.1.1 Physical Port Setup
When the port is set up with a Fibre Channel interface, touching the Port
button in the navigation area will display the screen shown below.
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