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13 Fibre Channel Over
Ethernet
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) information includes:
 Overview
 “FCoE Boot from SAN” on page 213
 “Configuring FCoE” on page 245
 “N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV)” on page 247
Overview
In today’s data center, multiple networks, including network attached storage
(NAS), management, IPC, and storage, are used to achieve the performance and
versatility that you require. In addition to iSCSI for storage solutions, Fibre
Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) can now be used with capable Marvell C-NICs.
FCoE is a standard that allows Fibre Channel protocol to be transferred over
Ethernet by preserving existing Fibre Channel infrastructures and capital
investments by classifying received FCoE and FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP)
frames.
The following FCoE features are supported:
 Receiver classification of FCoE and FIP frames. FIP is the FCoE
Initialization Protocol used to establish and maintain connections.
 Receiver CRC offload
 Transmitter CRC offload
 Dedicated queue set for Fibre Channel traffic
 N_Port ID virtualization (NPIV) on Windows and Linux
 Virtual machine virtual Fibre Channel (vFC) Host Bus Adapters in Windows
Server 2012 and later, and R2 Hyper-V