Fiber Channel over Ethernet Overview (FCOE)
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- Lesson 1 FC Protocol Introduction
- FC Network topologies
- FC Frame format and Flow Control
- Fabric Login, Process Login, FSPF, N_Port Identifier Virtualization (NPIV)
- N_Port Virtualizer (NPV), The RSCN Process, Standard Fabric Services
- FC QoS and FC congestion management using Standard FC B2B–based
- FC QoS and FC congestion management using Standard FC B2B and FCC
- FC deisign limitations/number of nodes in fabric, fabric diameter, RRT latency
- Lesson 2 FCoE Protocol and DCB Introduction
- The Rationale for FCoE
- FCOE Elements(T11 standard overview)
- FCoE virtualization: VF port
- FCoE Architecture
- FCOE Addressing SPMA and FPMA
- FCOE Initialization Protocol (FIP)
- FCoE Topology/design limitations
- Bridging FCoE traffic paths: VN-to-VF, VF- to-VE, VE-to-VE, VN-to-VN
- DCB/Enhanced Ethernet Protocol Overview (IEEE standard)
- DCB Standard Definition Overview
- PFC Priority Flow Control, Delayed Drop
- ETS Enhanced Transmission Selection
- DCBXP Data Center Bridging Exchange
- Lesson 3 Converged Network Adapters for DCB connectivity
- vNIC and vHBA connectivity using logical links and VN-links, VN-tags
- Host-Based Failover in OS
- NIC Teaming and FC Multipathing Examples
- QLogic and Emulex CNAs (second generation)
- FC Blade server connection using NPV mode of connection
- FC NPIV mode of server connection for VMs and NPV mode
- Lesson 4 DCB/FCoE Network Character and Design Consideration
- VLAN-to VSAN mapping
- FCoE design limitations, NPV mode for FcoE
- DCB networks congestion management and QoS overview
- DCB/FCoE lossles fabric architecture/behaviour
- DCB E_Node, Virtualization support
- En/Decapsulation support
- Non-blocking lossless internal switch architecture using VOQ and Central Arbitration
- Fabric Throughput and low latency transport
- Congestion mngnt/avoidance for Storage/FCoE traffic and for classical Ethernet Traffic
- FC point-to-point network topology implementation on DCE network
- FC switched fabric topology implementation on DCB network
- Routing classical ethernet-based application using FSPF and STP interaction
- Bridging FCoE traffic across DCB network
- DCB/FCoE network redundancy and fabric scalability/limitation design factors
- Lesson 5 Interface Virtualization and VEB for Virtualization environment
- VN-Link, IV forwarding tables, DCBX VIC protocol control plane
- Vfc over Veth and vfc directly over ethernet port deployment
- Lesson 6 FCoE and DCB congestion management plane virtualization
- FCoE QoS, QoS queues, Ingress CoS marking, bandwidth guarrentee, etc
- Classical IP/ethernet QoS, upstream and downstream congestion analysis
- Extending the boundary QoS to NX1k CoS and DSCP marking
- Rate Limiting, 802.1q tagging
- Lesson 7 High Availability with Cisco FCF - Features Review
- NSF for Data plane traffic all L2, LAN protocols
- EtherChaneling PortChanneling
- Logical Interface (LIF,vETH, vFC), logical links
- VLAN/VSAN, FSPF, vPC, RSTP, PVRST/MST
- Ethernet and FC PortChannels Implementation overview
- Lesson 8 FCoE in the Future (FC_BB_5)
- ECMP multipathing topolgies in the future (with FCF snooping and without)
- VE-to-VE port
- FC_BB_6 for FCoE in the future (Control and Data plane separated)
- FIP Snooping
- FCoE virtualization: VE port
- FC FIP Snooping for FC server multihop connection
- DCB E_Node, Virtualization support
- NSF for Data plane traffic all L2, SAN protocols
- Equal Cost Multipathing