Chapter 3. FCoE Storage Connectivity
FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet)
Fiber Channel over Ethernet, or FCoE (pronounced Ef-See-Oh-Ee), is an encapsulation of FC frames over Ethernet networks. The spec is governed by the T11 committee, which is part of the INCITS (InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards). It is defined in T11 FC-BB-5 standard (Fibre Channel BackBone — 5) available at http://www.t11.org/ftp/t11/pub/fc/bb-5/09-056v5.pdf (later revisions might exist by the time this book is published).
FCoE maps FC directly over Ethernet but is independent of the Ethernet forwarding scheme. The spec replaces layers 0 and 1 of the FC stack (see Chapter 2, “Fibre Channel Storage Connectivity”), which are the Physical and the ...
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