FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet)

FC-BB-5 standard

Presentations at T11 - FC-BB-6 Working Group
Please note that the technical contribution listed below have not been approved in FC-BB-6, unless explicitly stated. The material listed below is just being brainstormed in an initial phase of the project that will not produce a standard before April 201).

February 2010, San Antonio, TX

• Meeting Minutes
• FCoE: Distributed FCF Functionality Gai (Cisco)
• Protecting FPP/FCF Connections Noll (Cisco)
• Locally Unique N_Port_IDs DeSanti (Cisco) (presentation)
• Locally Unique N_Port_IDs DeSanti (Cisco) (text)
• (Direct Mode) Adapter Based Shortcuts Hufferd (Hufferd Ent.)
• Adapter Based Shortcuts Hufferd (Hufferd Ent.)
• FCoE Point to Point Hathorn (IBM)
• FC-BB-6: VN_Port to VN_Port Virtual Links Peterson (Brocade)

December 2009, New Orleans, LA

• Meeting Minutes (APPROVED)
• Obsoleting SPMAs DeSanti (Cisco) (APPROVED)
• FC-BB-6: SPMA - Do we really want to obsolete it (now)? Peterson (Brocade)
• Filling the Virtualization Swamp Crandall (Brocade)
• FCoE Point to Point Hathorn (IBM)
• Adapter Based Shortcuts Hufferd (Hufferd Ent.)
• (Direct Mode) Adapter Based Shortcuts Hufferd (Hufferd Ent.)
• FC-BB-6: VN_Port to VN_Port Virtual Links Peterson (Brocade)
• FC-BB-6 Developments DeSanti (Cisco)
• FPMAs for VN_Port to VN_Port Virtual Links DeSanti (Cisco)
• FCoE: Distributed FCF functionality Gai (Cisco)
• Protecting FPP / FC-CMP Connections Noll (Cisco)
   

October 2009, Sacramento, CA

• Meeting Minutes (APPROVED)
• Obsoleting SPMAs (Cisco)
• FCoE end-to-end: adding details (Cisco)
• Adapter Based Shortcuts (doc is T11/09-517v0) (Hufferd Ent.)

August 2009, Sault Lake City, UT

• FIP interop - Summary of issues found during testing (EMC)
• End-to-End FCoE (Cisco)
• FCoE Point to Point (IBM)

June 2009, Coeur d'Alene, ID

• FC-BB-6 Approved Project Proposal
• Potential Topics for FC-BB-6, Silvano Gai, Cisco

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

New Articles

• FCIA makes the case for FCoE
• Fibre Channel over Ethernet: allowing the big data-center synch
• FCIA FCoE Recommended Features

Videos

• Intro to FCoE by EMC
• Watch this CNBC movie on FCoE
• Fibre Channel over Ethernet and I/O consolidation

Certifications

• EMC Introduces its First Switch for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
• NetApp First to Announce Support for Native FCoE Storage

Books

Testing Reports

• Demartek Publishes FCoE First Look and Test Drive Reports

Whitepapers

• FCoE and FCoCEE (IBM Redbook)
• Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) paper on FCoE
• Enhanced Ethernet (Nuova Systems)
• Qlogic on FCoE
• Emulex on FCoE
• HCL Technologies

Blogs

• Chuck's Blog (EMC)
• Storage Architect

Articles

• Jumping the Gun
• iSCSI: Game over
• The Hidden News of FCOE
• FCOE Group Claims Milestone
• A Closer Look at Converged Data Center Networks, Part 1
• A Closer Look at Converged Data Center Networks, Part 2
• Leading IT Vendors Propose Fibre Channel Over Ethernet Standard

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/

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.