Re: FCoE Deployment

[David Swafford <david () davidswafford com>]

Hey everyone,


I've not forgotten about this.  I plan on writing up the detail on our FCoE
experiences on Monday and will post it here.  Have a few things going on
today and this weekend that are going to prevent me from keeping focused on
this.

David.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Tom Ammon <tom.ammon () utah edu> wrote:

> David,
>
> I'm  very interested in hearing more details on this, if you want to
> share...
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David [mailto:david () davidswafford com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 4:07 PM
> To: Jack Morgan
> Cc: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: FCoE Deployment
>
> yep, we're doing FCoE in an EMC Symettric, ESX, Nexus environment.  All of
> our FCoE is over 10gb CNAs.  We are having good results, though we hit an
> odd bug on QLogics cards initially on pur HP DL 580s (affected twinax only
> -- if you dropped on uplink , ie testing failover, throughput dropped to
> crap for disk i/o., that issue only cleared after a power cycle of the
> server.  Qlogic never fixed the issue so we RMAd nearly 30k in 10gb CNA
> cards and swapped everythibg to fiber.  So beware of that.  I can get more
> detail on the affected cards,etc tomorrow if interested.  Our entire
> production VMware environment is off that setup.
>
> David
>
> Sent from an email server.
>
> On Feb 22, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Jack Morgan <jack () bonyari com> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of any company or organization deploying FCoE[1] in a
> > production environment? I'm curious how widely adopted this technology
> is.
> > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel_over_Ethernet
> >    http://fcoe.com/
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Jack Morgan