White Papers

Technical White Paper
Technical White Paper
Booting VMware ESXi from FCoE
Abstract
FCoE is a network technology which transports Fibre Channel traffic over
Ethernet network to make use of 10 Gbit speed and reduce the operational costs.
This technical white paper gives an overview of FCoE, software and hardware
requirements to boot VMware ESXi from an FCoE LUN. In this white paper, we
focus on a hardware CNA initiator, a switch and a storage array to make it more
specific, however majority of the flow would be same across storage arrays and
initiators except the switch specific commands. This white paper also provides
useful ESXi commands which provides the initiator with target details and the
statistics of FCoE LUN.
November 2019

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