FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet)

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a proposed mapping of Fibre Channel over selected full duplex IEEE 802.3 networks.

FCoE is standard

The FCoE standardization activity started in April 2007 is now successfully completed.

On Wednesday June 3rd, 2009, the FC-BB-5 working group of T11 completed the development of the draft standard and unanimously approved it as the final standard. The following day the plenary session of T11 approved forwarding the FC-BB-5 standard to INCITS for publication as an ANSI standard.

The standard is at:
http://www.t11.org/ftp/t11/pub/fc/bb-5/09-056v5.pdf

 

Functionality

The goal is to provide I/O consolidation over Ethernet reducing network complexity in the Datacenter.

Standard Support

This project is part of FC-BB-5 WG of INCITS T11.

 

Presentations at T11 - FC-BB-6 Working Group

June 2009, Coeur d'Alene, ID

The material used during the development of FC-BB-5 is now obsolete, but it is still accessible here.

New Articles

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Certifications

Books

 Silvano Gai, "Data Center Network and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)," ISBN: 978-1-4357-1424-3, March 2008.

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Silvano Gai, Tommi Salli, Roger Andersson, "Project California: a Data Center Virtualization Server - UCS (Unified Computing System)," ISBN 978-0-557-05739-9, Cisco Systems, April 2009.

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Open Source FCoE

Thre FCoE software stack is open sourced. The web site for this is: www.Open-FCoE.org The announcement is: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/27/227

OpenSolaris

See http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/fcoe/

Xgig® TraceViewer for FCoE

Xgig TraceViewer is the free software provided by Finisar Corp. for protocol analysis such as FCoE, Fibre Channel, Ethernet and SAS/SATA. You can download the software at http://www.finisar.com/xgig/

Wireshark for FCoE

WireShark (http://wireshark.org/) is the most used public domain protocol analyzer. The WireShark dissector for FCoE now complies with the converged frame format. You can download the standard build at http://www.wireshark.org/. See Also FCoE: Wireshark.