September 2022
Beginner
736 pages
20h 54m
English
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Chapter 15
Describing FCoE
This chapter covers the Cisco Unified Fabric and the protocol it uses for storage communication—Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). You will learn what the Cisco Unified Fabric is, why it is needed, and what its building components are. This chapter also focuses on the architecture and operation of FCoE and the adapters that support this protocol, and some configuration examples are provided as well.
Cisco Unified Fabric
Historically, data centers have always had two separate major communication infrastructures: the local area network (LAN) and the storage area network (SAN).
The LAN infrastructure provides connectivity between the users and the applications running on the servers, and between the various applications ...