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Appendix B: Hardware and Software
Sun Storage 10 GbE FCoE PCIe Converged Network Adapter
The Sun Storage 10 GbE FCoE PCIe Converged Network Adapter is a single-chip, fully-offloaded FCoE initiator,
operating in both virtual and non-virtual environments, running over an Enhanced Ethernet fabric. This
converged network adapter initiator boosts system performance with 10Gbps speed and full hardware offload for
FCoE protocol processing. Cutting-edge 10 Gbps bandwidth eliminates performance bottlenecks in the I/O path
with a 10X data rate improvement over existing 1Gbps Ethernet solutions. In addition, full hardware offload for
FCoE protocol processing reduces system CPU usage for I/O operations, which leads to faster application
performance and greater consolidation in virtualized systems.
Sun ZFS Storage Appliance
Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance product line delivers leadership value for organizations using unified storage
to implement cloud computing, virtualization, fixed-content serving, data-protection and storage-consolidation
environments. The product line enables the rapid deployment of new revenue-producing applications and lowers
expenses by reducing storage complexity and its associated administrative costs.
The Sun ZFS Storage Appliance product line combines industry-leading performance, density, and storage
analytics with an innovative storage architecture and unparalleled ease of deployment and use.
Brocade 8000 DCB/FCoE Switch
The Brocade 8000 switch is a Layer 2, 32-port, 1U form factor top-of-rack switch with:
 Twenty-four 10 GbE DCB ports (see Figure 1) that support FCoE and provide line-rate, low-latency, lossless,
deterministic connectivity based on Brocade 10 Gbps cut-through and non-blocking switching technology
 Eight 8 Gbps Fibre Channel ports with auto-sensing for 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gbps speeds
The Brocade 8000 switch provides flexible migration and deployment options with a DCB-only model that can be
used as a top-of-rack switch for 10-GbE connectivity. This particular configuration provides a building block for
future migration to FCoE. When the time is right, organizations simply enable the Fibre Channel ports and FCoE
capabilities via an upgrade license to support converged server I/O.
The top-of-rack Brocade 8000 switch connects to server CNAs in server racks through DCB ports and connects
to the storage infrastructure over the Fibre Channel ports. The CNAs encapsulate the Fibre Channel traffic
destined for the storage networks as FCoE, and the IP traffic flows as 10 GbE frames to the 24 DCB ports on the
Brocade 8000 switch. The switch then forwards traditional Ethernet-based IP traffic from the DCB ports onto the
LAN, and it forwards the Fibre Channel data in Fibre Channel frames over the Fibre Channel ports to the SAN.