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.