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Deploying FCoE (FIP Snooping) on Dell Force 10 MXL

ETS

Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS) is defined in the IEEE 802.1Qaz standard (IEEE, 2011). ETS

supports allocation of bandwidth amongst traffic classes. It then allows for sharing of bandwidth when

a particular traffic class doesn't fully utilize the allocated bandwidth. The management of the

bandwidth allocations is done with bandwidth-allocation priorities which coexist with strict priorities

(IEEE, 2011).

IO module (IOM) refers to the modules on the rear of the Dell PowerEdge M1000e chassis that will

receive and transmit I/O (Ethernet, FC, Infiniband, etc) from the blade servers. The Dell Force10 MXL

switch is as an IOM for the M1000e blade server chassis.

N-port identifier virtualization which enables multiple N-port fabric logins at the same time on the

same physical FC link (Cisco Systems, Inc., 2011).This term is in reference to the Cisco Nexus 5000

series switches implementation of NPIV. NPIV must be enabled to share multiple logins across a single

port/link or a port-channel/multiple-line link.

N-port virtualizer is a FC aggregation method which passes traffic through to end devices, while

eliminating the need to use a domain ID for this device (Cisco Systems, Inc., 2011). This term is also in

reference to configuration settings on the Cisco Nexus 5000 series switches.

Virtual SAN is a logical partitioning of physical connections to provide for fabric or SAN separation.

VSAN is a term that is particular to the Cisco Nexus series switches.

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