What is the difference between a fabric and SAN ? I am bit confused about both the terminologies. Can someone please explain in simple words. Thanks in advance.
So can we say that A fabric is also a SAN or A SAN is also a fabric. The defination of fabric is the interconnection between the nodes. So where's the difference with SAN ?
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Posted June 26th, 2014 08:00
A SAN is a term to describe any block storage network.
A fabric is a term to describe a specific type of block storage network.
SANs are fabrics when they are using FC-SW or FCoE as the physical link.
SANs are not fabrics when are using FC-AL or iSCSI as the physical link.