[150446] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCoE Deployment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Swafford)
Fri Feb 24 06:29:50 2012
In-Reply-To: <34FB1D1922F27F439B677D238AF0A4AC0F9137@X-MB10.xds.umail.utah.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:28:50 -0500
From: David Swafford <david@davidswafford.com>
To: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hey everyone,
I've not forgotten about this. I plan on writing up the detail on our FCoE
experiences on Monday and will post it here. Have a few things going on
today and this weekend that are going to prevent me from keeping focused on
this.
David.
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Tom Ammon <tom.ammon@utah.edu> wrote:
> David,
>
> I'm very interested in hearing more details on this, if you want to
> share...
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David [mailto:david@davidswafford.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 4:07 PM
> To: Jack Morgan
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: FCoE Deployment
>
> yep, we're doing FCoE in an EMC Symettric, ESX, Nexus environment. All of
> our FCoE is over 10gb CNAs. We are having good results, though we hit an
> odd bug on QLogics cards initially on pur HP DL 580s (affected twinax only
> -- if you dropped on uplink , ie testing failover, throughput dropped to
> crap for disk i/o., that issue only cleared after a power cycle of the
> server. Qlogic never fixed the issue so we RMAd nearly 30k in 10gb CNA
> cards and swapped everythibg to fiber. So beware of that. I can get more
> detail on the affected cards,etc tomorrow if interested. Our entire
> production VMware environment is off that setup.
>
> David
>
> Sent from an email server.
>
> On Feb 22, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Jack Morgan <jack@bonyari.com> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of any company or organization deploying FCoE[1] in a
> > production environment? I'm curious how widely adopted this technology
> is.
> >
> >
> > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel_over_Ethernet
> > http://fcoe.com/
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Jack Morgan
> >
> >
>
>
