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ESXi FCoE commands

14 Booting VMware ESXi from FCoE

ESXi FCoE commands

This section lists the commands used for FCoE.

2.1 FCoE capable CNA devices

The following screenshot captured with the command that lists the FCoE capable CNA devices:

The following are list of commands and its description mentioned in the above screenshot:

• vmhba64: Name of the storage adapter. This refers to the physical adapter on the host.

• Source MAC: The unique hardware address i.e. physical address of the source node.

• FCF MAC: The unique address assigned by Fibre channel forwarder (FCF) during FLOGI (Fibre

channel login) or FDISC (Fabric discovery) process.

• VNPort MAC: A MAC address that uniquely identifies a CNA port (VN_port in FCoE terminology)

• Physical NIC: A virtual machine network interface card, also a physical adapter on the ESXi host.

• User Priority: Priority to use for FCoE traffic.

• VLAN id: To identify VLAN.

• VN2VN mode: Allows FCoE network to work without any FCoE switches (or FCFs). The default

setting is false.