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Friday, July 29, 2011

NX-OS FCoE Ports

Nexus 5000 Feature that needs to be licensed.

FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) - is leveraged to further unify I/O.  FCoE allows fibre channel to operate over ethernet by encapsulating Fibre Channel into ethernet. 

FCoE Ports
Virutal N_Port (VN_Port) - Node ports which exist on hosts or storage arrays and connect to a FC fabric. Operates over Ethernet links.

Virtual F_Port (VF_Port) - Switch or director ports that connct to node ports. Operates over Ethernet links.

Virtual E_Port (VE_Port) - Expansion port that is used to inter-connect two FC switches together. When two swithes are connected they form an ISL (interswitch link) Operates over Ethernet links.
Posted by Packets Analyzed at 12:00 PM
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