Host Architectures
Bus Metrics
Where’s the Bottleneck?
I can’t be late, I can’t be late!.
. . . is the system bottleneck in the server?
Fibre Channel
etc
Potential Bottleneck
System
Bus
The number of HBAs that you can attach to a System Bus depends on the
speed and type of the bus.
We will look at the original bus architectures and how they have progressed
over time, and how the parallel architectures have migrated to serial
architectures, just like the I/O interfaces have evolved.