FCoE NPV is supported on the Cisco Nexus devices. It functions similarly to traditional FCoE. The FCoE NPV feature is an enhanced form of FIP snooping that provides a secure method to connect FCoE-capable hosts to an FCoE-capable FCoE forwarder (FCF) switch. The FCoE NPV feature provides the following benefits: FCoE NPV does not have […]
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In the topology shown in Figure 9-16, a CNA is directly attached to the FCF, and FCoE extends from the CNA to the FCF and then is broken out to Native FC and Ethernet. Trunking is not required on the host driver because all FCoE frames are tagged by the CNA. A VLAN can be […]
PFC is defined in IEEE 802.1Qbb. Link sharing is critical to I/O consolidation. For link sharing to succeed, large bursts from one traffic type must not affect other traffic types, large queues of traffic from one traffic type must not starve other traffic types’ resources, and optimization for one traffic type must not create large […]
Smart zoning implements hard zoning of large zones with fewer hardware resources than was previously required. The traditional zoning method allows each device in a zone to communicate with every other device in the zone, and the administrator is required to manage the individual zones. Smart zoning eliminates the need to create a single initiator […]