[150365] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: FCoE Deployment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pierce Lynch)
Wed Feb 22 16:11:56 2012
From: Pierce Lynch <p.lynch@netappliant.com>
To: Tore Anderson <tore.anderson@redpill-linpro.com>, Jack Morgan
<jack@bonyari.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:10:56 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4F450649.5050302@redpill-linpro.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> FCoE was until very recently the only way to do centralized block storage=
=20
> to the Cisco UCS server blades, so I'd imagine it's quite widely adopted.
> That said, we don't run FCoE outside of the UCS <black box> - its uplinks
> to the SAN are just regular FC.
Agreed, very much the only implementation I have come across FCoE installat=
ions for is Cisco UCS chassis. Personally, it's not something that I have s=
een regularly adopted as of yet outside proprietary hardware configurations=
such as UCS deployments.
Certainly also keen to understand as to any other use cases and deployments=
others have implemented using full-blown FCoE.
Kind regards,
Pierce Lynch
