Fibre Channel Write Acceleration - Cisco AP776A - Nexus Converged Network Switch 5020 Configuration Manual

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Configuring Fibre Channel Write Acceleration
The Storage Services Module (SSM) supports Fibre Channel write acceleration on Cisco MDS 9000
Family switches running Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.0(2b) and later or Cisco NX-OS 4.1(3).
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Fibre Channel Write Acceleration

Fibre Channel write acceleration minimizes application latency or reduces transactions per second over
long distances. For synchronous data replication, Fibre Channel write acceleration increases the distance
of replication or reduces effective latency to improve performance. To take advantage of this feature,
both the initiator and target devices must be directly attached to an SSM.
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About Fibre Channel Write Acceleration
The Fibre Channel write acceleration feature also allows the configuration of the buffer count. You can
change the number of 2-KB buffers reserved on the target side DPP for a SCSI flow.
You can estimate the number of buffers to configure using the following formula:
(Number of concurrent SCSI writes * size of SCSI writes in bytes) / FCP data frame size in bytes
For example, HDS TrueCopy between HDS 9970s uses 1-KB FCP data frames. You perform an initial
sync for a 16-LUN TrueCopy group with 15 tracks, or 768-KB per LUN, requires approximately
16*(768*1024)/1024 or 12248 write buffers.
Note The Fibre Channel write acceleration feature requires the Enterprise Package license installed on both
the initiator and target switches.
OL-18084-01, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.x
Fibre Channel Write Acceleration, page 49-1
Displaying Fibre Channel Write Acceleration Information, page 49-2
Default Settings, page 49-4
About Fibre Channel Write Acceleration, page 49-1
Enabling Fibre Channel Write Acceleration, page 49-2
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