FCoE Cookbook for HP Virtual Connect Version 4.20 Firmware Enhancements May 2014
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When slow FCoE performance is due to Pause frames transmitted by
VC/Servers.
Figure 50: Virtual Connect sending PFC Pause frames due to congestion.
FC Target
LAN
PPP
Congestion
Point
PPP
Congestion
Point
Nexus interface connected
to Virtual Connect that needs
to be monitored
When the Virtual Connect uplink is sending Pause frames to the Nexus, the Nexus interface that is connected to the
Virtual Connect module is showing the following:.
For a few iterations using the "show queuing interface ethx/x" command, the pause status are detected for Rx as
Active as shown below: