Hi group, I have a general understanding question. We have a SAN and we need to extend it to a second location via a 1GB WAN-Ethernet circuit. All my research brought back to use the FCIP feature of the McData or MDS900 switches and then route the traffic via IP. I dont like this idea beacause of all the issues with overhead and buffer tweaking that need occur to proper run that architecture.
Isnt it possible to kind of bridge the FC traffic over the ethernet without using IP? The speed of the FC and the ethernet WAN is the same.
I found also there is a FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) specs in the works, but this will take some more time to be established.
Am I thinking in the wrong direction, or are there maybe devices on the market which allows me to do what I have described?
Dark fibre is no option in that place, otherwise we would have used that for FC transport.
Thanks, Greetings, Jo