FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet)

FC-BB-5 standard

Presentations at T11 - FC-BB-6 Working Group
Please note that the technical contribution listed below have not been approved in FC-BB-6, unless explicitly stated. The material listed below is just being brainstormed in an initial phase of the project that will not produce a standard before April 2012.

December 2011, St Petersburg, FL

• Meeting Minutes (11-516v0)
• Multiple Fabric_Names in a single VLAN - Smith (EMC), Martin (Emulex) (11-480v0)
• BB-6 modifications for Multiple FCFs on one VLAN - Martin (Emulex), Smith (EMC) (11-515v0)
• High Availability Models of Operation in Fibre Channel - Ayandeh (HP) (11-482v0)
• Flexible FDF Connectivity -- Mechanisms - Ayandeh (HP) (11-481v0)
• Distributed FCF - DeSanti (Cisco) (11-026v3)
• VA_Port Protocols - DeSanti (Cisco) (11-225v2)
• Controlling Switch Redundancy Protocol - DeSanti (Cisco) (11-224v2)
• FC-BB-6: Observations on the Virtual Domain Model - Johnson, Peterson (Brocade) (11-494v0)
• FC-BB-6: Virtual Domain text - Peterson (Brocade) (11-217v2)
• FC-BB-6: Link Length Determination - Johnson (Brocade) (11-498v0)

October 2011, Albuquerque, NM

• Meeting Minutes (11-452v3) (APPROVED)
• Distributed FCF - DeSanti (Cisco) (11-026v3)
• VA_Port Protocols - DeSanti (Cisco) (11-225v1)
• Controlling Switch Redundancy Protocol - DeSanti (Cisco) (11-224v1)
• Flexible FDF Connectivity - Ayandeh (HP) (11-391v0)
• Implicit Logout and Virtual Links - Hathorn (IBM) (11-409v0)
• Distributed FCF Implicit Logout - Hathorn (IBM) (11-435v0)
• FC-BB-6 Now Featuring.... - Ricci (IBM) (11-408v0)
• Changes to the Fabric Configuration Server Model - Crandall (Brocade) (11-220v2)
• FC-BB-6: Merge/Split - Peterson (Brocade) (11-402v0)
• FC-BB-6: Manual Configuration and Automatic Configuration - Peterson (Brocade) (11-401v0)
• FC-BB-6: Link Flapping - Peterson (Brocade) (11-400v0)
• FC-BB-6: Multiple Virtual Domain Use Cases - Johnson (Brocade) (11-396v0)
• FC-BB-6: Notification of Non-delivery Evaluation - Johnson (Brocade) (11-397v0)
• FC-BB-6: Neighbor Node Identification Concerns - Johnson (Brocade) (11-398v0)
• FC-BB-6: Distance Considerations - Johnson (Brocade) (11-399v0)

August 2011, Edmonton, AB

• Meeting Minutes (11-345v1) (APPROVED)
• Distributed FCF - DeSanti (Cisco) (11-026v2)
• Controlling Switch/FCF Functional Model - DeSanti (Cisco) (11-346v0)
• VA_Port Protocols - DeSanti (Cisco) (11-225v0)
• Controlling Switch Redundancy Protocol - DeSanti (Cisco) (11-224v0)
• Summary of Virtual Domain Use Cases - Johnson (Brocade) (11-214v1)
• Notification of Non-delivery - Johnson (Brocade) (11-310v0)
• Virtual Domain_ID - Peterson (Brocade) (11-309v0)
• Virtual Domain text - Peterson (Brocade) (11-217v1)
• Changes to the Fabric Configuration Server Model - White (Juniper) (11-220v1)

June 2011, Coeur d'Alene, ID

• Meeting Minutes (11-238v1) (APPROVED)
• FIP Clear Virtual Link Reason Codes - Smith (EMC) (11-064v2)
• FIP Clear Virtual Link Reason Codes (proposed text changes) - Smith (EMC) (11-209v1)
• Controlling Switch Redundancy Protocol - Presentation - DeSanti (Cisco) (11-227v0)
• Controlling Switch Redundancy Protocol - DeSanti (Cisco) (11-224v0)
• Distributed FCF - DeSanti (Cisco) (11-026v2)
• VA_Port Protocols - DeSanti (Cisco) (11-225v0)
• Distributed Switching - DeSanti (Cisco) (11-223v0)
• Multilevel FDFs - Hathorn (IBM) (11-221v0)
• Distributed FCF Fabric Login - Hathorn (IBM) (11-222v0)
• Virtual Domain Merge - Johnson (Brocade) (11-214v0)
• Changes to the Fabric Configuration Server Model - Crandall (Brocade) (11-220v0)
• Controlling Switch Redundancy - Peterson (Brocade) (11-215v0)
• SW_ILS TLV format(s) - Peterson (Brocade) (11-216v0)
• Virtual Domain text - Peterson (Brocade) (11-217v0)
• BB6 Requirements - Ayandeh (HP) (11-218v0)

April 2011, Philadelphia, PA

• Meeting Minutes (11-141v0) (APPROVED)
• FC-BB-6 What is in the box - Weber (ENDL) (11-073v0)
• Distributed FCF - DeSanti (Cisco) (11-026v1)
• Distributed FCF - Presentation - DeSanti (Cisco) (11-070v1)
• FDF Use Case and Behaviors - Skagen (Brocade) (11-164v0)
• Distributed FCF Requirements for High Availability - Wilson (Brocade) (11-162v0)
• Distributed FCF - Peterson (Brocade) (11-165v0)
• FIP Clear Virtual Link Reason Codes - Smith (EMC) (11-064v1)

February 2011, Charleston, SC

• Meeting Minutes (11-040v1) (APPROVED)
• FC-BB-6 Functionality - Peterson (Brocade) (11-024v0)
• Distributed FCF - DeSanti (Cisco) (11-026v0)
• Distributed FCF - Presentation - DeSanti (Cisco) (11-070v0)
• FIP Clear Virtual Link Reason Codes - Smith (EMC) (11-064v0)

December 2010, Amelia Island, FL

• Meeting Minutes (10-533v0) (APPROVED)
• FC-BB-6: Virtual Domain - Peterson (Brocade) (10-345v2)
• FC-BB-6: Virtual Domain - Peterson (Brocade) (10-517v0)
• FCoE Topologies - Gai (Cisco), Smith (EMC) (10-130v3)
• Cascading FDFs - DeSanti (Cisco) (10-555v0)
• VA_Ports: FDF / Controlling FCF Protocols - DeSanti (Cisco) (10-271v4)
• FCoE: Flow Control Enforcement - Pelissier (Cisco) (10-552v0)

October 2010, Seattle, WA

• Meeting Minutes (10-447v0) (APPROVED)
• FC-BB-6: Virtual Domain - Peterson (Brocade) (10-345v1)
• FDF Routing - DeSanti (Cisco) (10-465v0)
• VA_Ports: FDF / Controlling FCF Protocols - DeSanti (Cisco) (10-271v3)

August 2010, Chicago, IL

• Meeting Minutes (10-362v0) (APPROVED)
• VN_Port WWPN to Fabric association - Smith (EMC) (10-224v1)
• FCoE Path Potholes - Carlson (QLogic) (10-273v0)
• FC-BB-6: ASFC for the FC pseudowire - Black (EMC) (10-252v2)
• GFPT and PW require 8B/10B - Nixon (Emulex) (10-313v0)
• The Missing Piece - Hufferd (Hufferd Enterprises) (10-339v0)
• Spotting the Just-Right FDF - Weber (ENDL) - (10-309v0)
• FC-BB-6 FDF Requirements - Hathorn (IBM) (10-343v0)
• FC-BB-6 FDF features - Gai (Cisco) (10-346v0)
• FC-BB-6: Virtual Domain - Peterson (Brocade) (10-345v0)
• VA_Ports: FDF / Controlling FCF Protocols - DeSanti (Cisco) (10-271v2)

June 2010, Minneapolis, MN

• Meeting Minutes (APPROVED)
• ASFC for the FC pseudowire - Black (EMC) (10-252v0)
• FCoE End-to-End Connection - Ko (Huawei Symantec) (10-132v1)
• ENode functionality - Peterson (Brocade) (10-232v0)
• Generating pseudo-random N_Port_IDs - Noll (Cisco) (10-137v1)
• Locally Unique N_Port_IDs - DeSanti (Cisco) (10-019v3)
• Incorporating 10-019v3 in FC-BB-6 - DeSanti (Cisco) (10-272v0) (APPROVED)
• Single Domain FCoE Fabrics - Peterson (Brocade) (10-233v0)
• FDF Protocols - Carlson (QLogic) (10-274v0)
• VA_Ports: FDF / Controlling FCF Protocols - DeSanti (Cisco) (10-271v0)
• FC-SW-6 Project Proposal - Wilson (Brocade) (10-220v0) (APPROVED)
• VN_Port WWPN to Fabric association - Smith (EMC) (10-224v1)
• FCoE Path Potholes - Carlson (QLogic) (10-273v0)

March 2010, Pasadena, CA

• Meeting Minutes (APPROVED)
• Jet Assist for FCoE P2P N_Port_ID Selection - Weber (ENDL) (10-119v0)
• FC-BB-6 Living in a MainFrame World - Ricci (IBM) (10-123v1)
• FCoE End-to-End Connection - Ko (Huawei Symantec) (10-132v0)
• Harmonized (Direct Mode) Adapter Based Shortcut - Hufferd (Hufferd Ent.) (10-133v1)
• VN2VN Multi-Point and Point-to-Point - DeSanti (Cisco) (10-156v0)
• Generating pseudo-random N_Port_IDs - Noll (Cisco) (10-137v0)
• The FDF (FC/FCoE Data Forwarder) - Hufferd (Hufferd Ent.) (10-131v1)
• FCoE Topologies - Gai (Cisco) (10-130v1)

February 2010, San Antonio, TX

• Meeting Minutes (APPROVED)
• FCoE: Distributed FCF Functionality - Gai (Cisco)
• Protecting FPP/FCF Connections - Noll (Cisco)
• Locally Unique N_Port_IDs - DeSanti (Cisco) (presentation)
• Locally Unique N_Port_IDs - DeSanti (Cisco) (text)
• (Direct Mode) Adapter Based Shortcuts - Hufferd (Hufferd Ent.)
• Adapter Based Shortcuts - Hufferd (Hufferd Ent.)
• FCoE Point to Point - Hathorn (IBM)
• FC-BB-6: VN_Port to VN_Port Virtual Links - Peterson (Brocade)

December 2009, New Orleans, LA

• Meeting Minutes (APPROVED)
• Obsoleting SPMAs - DeSanti (Cisco) (APPROVED)
• FC-BB-6: SPMA - Do we really want to obsolete it (now)? - Peterson (Brocade)
• Filling the Virtualization Swamp - Crandall (Brocade)
• FCoE Point to Point - Hathorn (IBM)
• Adapter Based Shortcuts - Hufferd (Hufferd Ent.)
• (Direct Mode) Adapter Based Shortcuts - Hufferd (Hufferd Ent.)
• FC-BB-6: VN_Port to VN_Port Virtual Links - Peterson (Brocade)
• FC-BB-6 Developments - DeSanti (Cisco)
• FPMAs for VN_Port to VN_Port Virtual Links - DeSanti (Cisco)
• FCoE: Distributed FCF functionality - Gai (Cisco)
• Protecting FPP / FC-CMP Connections - Noll (Cisco)

October 2009, Sacramento, CA

• Meeting Minutes (APPROVED)
• Obsoleting SPMAs (Cisco)
• FCoE end-to-end: adding details (Cisco)
• Adapter Based Shortcuts (Hufferd Ent.) presentation
• Adapter Based Shortcuts (Hufferd Ent.) text
• Proxy Based Shortcuts (Hufferd Ent.) presentation
• Proxy Based Shortcuts (Hufferd Ent.) text

August 2009, Sault Lake City, UT

• FIP interop - Summary of issues found during testing (EMC)
• End-to-End FCoE (Cisco)
• FCoE Point to Point (IBM)

June 2009, Coeur d'Alene, ID

• FC-BB-6 Approved Project Proposal
• Potential Topics for FC-BB-6, Silvano Gai, Cisco

The material used during the development of FC-BB-5 is now obsolete, but it is still accessible here.

New Articles

• FCIA makes the case for FCoE
• Fibre Channel over Ethernet: allowing the big data-center synch
• FCIA FCoE Recommended Features

Videos

• Intro to FCoE by EMC
• Watch this CNBC movie on FCoE
• Fibre Channel over Ethernet and I/O consolidation

Certifications

• EMC Introduces its First Switch for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
• NetApp First to Announce Support for Native FCoE Storage

Books

Testing Reports

• Demartek Publishes FCoE First Look and Test Drive Reports

Whitepapers

• FCoE and FCoCEE (IBM Redbook)
• Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) paper on FCoE
• Enhanced Ethernet (Nuova Systems)
• Qlogic on FCoE
• Emulex on FCoE
• HCL Technologies

Blogs

• Chuck's Blog (EMC)
• Storage Architect

Articles

• Jumping the Gun
• iSCSI: Game over
• The Hidden News of FCOE
• FCOE Group Claims Milestone
• A Closer Look at Converged Data Center Networks, Part 1
• A Closer Look at Converged Data Center Networks, Part 2
• Leading IT Vendors Propose Fibre Channel Over Ethernet Standard

Open Source FCoE

Thre FCoE software stack is open sourced. The web site for this is:www.Open-FCoE.org The announcement is: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/27/227

OpenSolaris

See http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/fcoe/

Wireshark for FCoE

WireShark (http://wireshark.org/) is the most used public domain protocol analyzer. The WireShark dissector for FCoE now complies with the converged frame format. You can download the standard build at http://www.wireshark.org/. See AlsoFCoE: Wireshark.