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Deployment of a converged infrastructure with fcoe

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Dell Networking S5000: Deployment of a Converged Infrastructure with FCoE

To keep things simple and as based on requirements, we use one virtual port on each physical port

and disable the rest. This can be done easily through Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 4 by selecting

the virtual port in the left-pane, expanding the 'Resource Reservations' item on the right-pane, clicking

the 'Configure' button, clicking the checkbox next to 'Ethernet/Ndis' to disable it, and confirming the

request. The system will need to be restarted for the changes to take effect. Before restarting the

system, we also enable FCoE on the two virtual ports we left the NIC enabled on, #154 and #155. We

follow the same method, except instead of removing the checkbox next to 'Ethernet/Ndis', we make

sure to check the 'FCoE' checkbox field. Once the system is restarted, we now see the below.

Figure 78: View in Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 4 of Broadcom BCM57810S with FCoE enabled

Now, in 'Control Panel->Network and Internet->Network Connections', we see only two virtual ports

as shown in Figure 79.

Figure 79: Virtual adapter network connections as seen in Windows

In Windows Device Manager, we see the below. As you can see the two storage HBAs are now visible

as we have enabled two virtual ports with FCoE.

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