Brocade Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator's Guide v6.1.2_cee (53-1001258-01, June 2009)

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Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 3
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FCoE overview
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FIGURE 1 FCoE switching and bridging
The Brocade 8000 CEE switch has the following features:
• 24, 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports (CEE ports)
• 8, 8-Gigabit FC ports
• Ethernet switching capability
• FC switching capability
• FCoE capability, including:
- FIP discovery
- FIP login
- Pre-standard FCoE login
- FCoE fabric services
- FCoE-to-FC bridging capabilities
NOTE
The intermediate switching devices in the Ethernet network do not have to be FCoE-aware. They
simply route the FCoE traffic to the FCoE device based on the Ethernet destination address in the
FCoE packet.
FC switch
FCF switch
FCF switch
(FCoE/FC bridge)
Server
Servers
Storage
Array
Host 3
Ethernet FC
Fabric Services through VF_port
FCoE VN_port to FC VN_port through VF_port