While consistently delivering on bandwidth needs, many storage fabrics have struggled to keep pace with customer expectations around storage infrastructures powered by AIOps, intelligently tiered storage and provisioning. Building an autonomous, self-driving storage fabric requires shared intelligence between endpoints, strong awareness of fabric conditions and decisive action that automates best practices.

In today's data-driven world, the demand for high-speed and reliable storage networks is constantly increasing. Fibre Channel (FC) has long been a preferred choice for storage area networks (SANs) due to its performance, scalability, and robustness. To meet the evolving needs of modern virtualized data centers, Fibre Channel introduced a groundbreaking feature known as Virtual Lanes (VLs), which allows for efficient resource utilization and enhanced Quality of Service (QoS).