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Sep 16 2009   11:01AM GMT

Cisco Press launches new title addressing FCoE standard



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
I/O Consolidation in the Data Center, Cisco Press, Cisco books, FCoE, FCoE standard, Fiber Chanel over Ethernet, data center 3.0, nexus 5000 unified fabric, Cisco Systems, FC-BB-5, Nuova Systems, Silvano Gai's, Jamie Adams, Enterprise IT professionals., Data Center

 

In one of my older post in June I was just taking about the FCoE (Fiber Channel over Ethernet) as a standard. Cisco Systems was one of the major contributors to establish the FCoE Standard.  Like a responsible vendor now Cisco Press has come up with a new title “I/O Consolidation in the Data Center”. This title is a fully updated version of Silvano Gai’s privately-published book on FCoE, written for leading FCoE pioneer Nuova Systems before the company was acquired by Cisco. Nearly 12,000 copies of that book have already been distributed, demonstrating the immense interest in FCoE technology, and the scarcity of reliable information that has existed about it.

The new title “I/O Consolidation in the Data Center” deals with the recently approved FCoE standard. According Cisco Press Senior Publicist Jamie Adams the new title comprises of five detail case studies illustrating typical FCoE adoption scenarios, as well as extensive Q & A section addressing issues raised quite often by the Enterprise IT professionals.

For more details do check out the Cisco Press product description.

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Jun 15 2009   1:14PM GMT

FCoE (Fiber Chanel over Ethernet) is a standard now



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
FCoE, FCoE standard, Fiber Chanel over Ethernet, data center 3.0, nexus 5000 unified fabric, Cisco Systems, FC-BB-5, Brocade

 

On 3rd June 2009, the FC-BB-5 working group of T11 completed the development of the draft standard and unanimously approved it as the final standard. The following day the plenary session of T11 approved forwarding the FC-BB-5 standard to INCITS for publication as an ANSI standard.

 

Cisco Systems has significantly contributed to the definition of FCoE in the FC-BB-5 standard through multiple technical submissions. Cisco has led the FC-BB-5 working group holding the chairman position with Claudio DeSanti.

One of the most significant technical challenges for the working group has been the definition of the addressing mode for FCoE, with two schemes proposed, FPMAs (Fabric Provided MAC Addresses, proposed by Cisco) and SPMAs (Server Provided MAC Addresses, proposed by Brocade). The final standard recognizes the superiority of the Cisco scheme by stating that FPMAs are the only addresses mandatory to implement.

The standard is at:
http://www.t11.org/ftp/t11/pub/fc/bb-5/09-056v5.pdf

Also check this blog entry at Cisco blogs.

 

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