Questions tagged [fcoe]

I'm looking to play around with a test Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) deployment between 2 Xen servers and 1 storage server. Eventually I plan to replace our ageing NFS shared storage solution. Is a DCB compatible switch strictly required? I'm…

I'm building a small datacenter from the ground, and I'm considering 10GbE. I'm looking for some advices about this decision. I've compared Infiniband, FC, 10GbE and LACP with GigE, and in the end 10GbE appears to be the best solution at this…

I am a network engg, and this is the first time I am trying to get FCOE working. Here is my setup: Centos server --------- transit switch ---- FC gateway ---- FC switch --- Netapp I believe the configurations on my networking part is correct. I am…

We're getting some intriguing performance with our new FCoE environment, and I was hoping that people could let me know if what we're seeing is expected behaviour. Our switching environment consists of 2 x Cisco Nexus 5672 switches, each having a…