FCoE Cookbook for HP Virtual Connect Version 4.20 Firmware Enhancements May 2014

Virtual Connect Restrictions

The following restrictions apply to VC modules and switches from different vendors:

 Up to 32 FCoE networks can be associated with any single set of uplink ports using the Multi-FCoE Network per Uplink

Set support in VC 4.20 or later.

With multi-FCoE Network per Uplink Set support, customers can benefit from Virtual SANs (VSANs) support but can

also have the ability to provide connectivity to multiple types of SAN from the same Virtual Connect set of ports.

Figure 3: Virtual Connect SUS configuration when using FCoE networks

SUS-1

FCoE-1

VLAN-30

VLAN-20

VLAN-10

LACP

Lossless FCoE Networks

VC Ethernet networks

Converged-SUS defined to pass

FCoE traffic and traditional

Ethernet traffic

FCoE-2

FCoE-3

 FCoE-capable Shared Uplink Set (SUS) is used to allow concurrent Ethernet and lossless FCoE traffic.

Figure 4: Sample of a Virtual Connect SUS with 2xFCoE networks and 3xEthernet networks

FCoE

Networks

Ethernet

Networks

Lossless

o An FCoE network cannot be created independently outside of a Shared Uplink Set.

o The number of FCoE networks is additionally limited by the 1000 networks Virtual Connect domain limit.