Appendix B Guidelines And Limitations; Verified Limits For Fcoe For The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series And Cisco Mds 9500; Cisco Nexus 7000: Guidelines And Limitations - Cisco Nexus 7000 series Configuration Manual

Guidelines and Limitations
This chapter includes the following sections:
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Verified Limits for FCoE for the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series and
Cisco MDS 9500
The configuration limits are documented in the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS Verified Scalability Guide.

Cisco Nexus 7000: Guidelines and Limitations

• You cannot enable FCoE on default VLAN.
• The QoS policy must be the same on all Cisco FCoE switches in the network.
• Beginning with Cisco NX-OS Release 6.1, FCoE is supported on F2 and F2e Series modules.
FCoE VDC
FCoE in a dedicated storage VDC has the following guidelines:
• Enable the FCoE feature set in only one VDC.
• Create VLANs in the FCoE allocated VLAN range.
• Do not enable any other features other than storage-related features in the dedicated FCoE VDC.
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Cisco Nexus 7000: Guidelines and Limitations, page 51
Cisco MDS 9500: Guidelines and Limitations, page 53
◦ FCoE supports only F2e (SFP+) modules.
◦ FCoE does not support F2e (Copper) modules.
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Cisco NX-OS FCoE Configuration Guide for Nexus 7000 and MDS 9500
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