Introducing Fcoe; In This Chapter; Fcoe Terminology; Fcoe Overview - Brocade Communications Systems Converged Enhanced Ethernet 8000 Administrator's Manual

Introducing FCoE

In this chapter

FCoE terminology

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Term
FCoE
CEE
VN_port
VF_port
ENode
FCoE Forwarder (FCF)
FIP

FCoE overview

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) enables you to transport FC protocols and frames over
Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) networks. CEE is an enhanced Ethernet that enables the
convergence of various applications in data centers (LAN, SAN, and HPC) onto a single interconnect
technology.
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FCoE terminology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
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FCoE overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
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Layer 2 Ethernet overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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FCoE Initialization Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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FCoE queuing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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Upgrade and downgrade considerations for FCoE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
lists and describes the FCoE terminology used in this document.

FCoE terminology

Description
Fibre Channel over Ethernet
Converged Enhanced Ethernet
FCoE equivalent of an FC N_port
FCoE equivalent of an FC F_port
An FCoE device that supports FCoE VN_ports
(servers and target devices)
An FCoE link end point that provides FC fabric
services
FCoE Initialization Protocol
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