Chapter 3
Detecting Congestion in Fibre Channel Fabrics
This chapter describes congestion detection in a Fibre Channel network. This includes topics like how to classify the severity of congestion, how to identify and alert when congestion occurs. It has detailed descriptions of the many metrics that can be used for congestion detection.
This chapter covers the following topics:
Congestion detection workflow
Congestion detection metrics
Congestion detection metrics and commands on Cisco MDS switches
Automatic alerting
Detecting congestion using remote monitoring platforms
Detecting congestion on long-distance links
Congestion Detection Workflow
As described in Chapter 1, “Introduction to Congestion in Storage Networks,” and Chapter 2, “
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