Fibre channel over Ethernet support in a trill network environment

摘要

An example method for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) support in a Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) network environment is provided and includes configuring at least two virtual storage area networks (SANs) in a TRILL network environment, which includes a plurality of leaf switches and spine switches, with each leaf switch being configured as a FCoE forwarder (FCF) enabled to forward frames according to FCoE protocol, and configuring at least an edge broadcast domain and a transport broadcast domain for each virtual SAN at each leaf switch. The edge broadcast domain includes end device links between the leaf switch and one or more end devices, and the transport broadcast domain includes spine links between the leaf switch and the spine switches.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
configuring, by a processor, at least two virtual storage area networks (SANs) in a Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) network environment that comprises a plurality of leaf switches and spine switches; and configuring, by the processor, at least one edge broadcast domain and at least one transport broadcast domain . . . at least two leaf switches through one or more fabric interconnects managed as a Unified Computing System (UCS) operating in an end-host mode, wherein the fabric interconnects are configured in a N_Port virtualization (NPV) mode.