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3 Booting VMware ESXi from FCoE
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Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 4
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 Audience and Scope .......................................................................................................................................... 5
1.2 Hardware and Software Requirements .............................................................................................................. 5
1.3 Storage configuration ......................................................................................................................................... 6
1.4 Enabling FCoE in PowerEdge servers ............................................................................................................... 7
2 ESXi FCoE commands ............................................................................................................................................... 14
2.1 FCoE capable CNA devices ............................................................................................................................. 14
2.2 LUN pathing information ................................................................................................................................... 15
2.3 FCoE adapter attributes ................................................................................................................................... 15
2.4 FCoE adapter statistics .................................................................................................................................... 16
3 Logging into FCoE during system boot ...................................................................................................................... 17
4 Troubleshooting .......................................................................................................................................................... 19
5 Summary .................................................................................................................................................................... 20
6 References ................................................................................................................................................................. 21