Benefits of Multihop FCoE
Provide massive scale with fabric isolation and operational segmentation. (5:12 min)
Multihop FCoE Overview
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End-to-End Unified Fabric TCO Calculator
Compare the cost of a fully converged multihop FCoE network to the cost of a separate LAN and SAN network.
Cisco Wins FCoE Market Leader Award
Cisco Nexus Switches earn IT Brand Pulse's FCoE brand recognition award for the third time
Market Leader Award to Cisco
For the second year, IT Brand Pulse named the Cisco FCoE switch a market and innovation leader. (PDF - 1.3 MB)
Cisco Storage Enterprise Assurance Lab
Learn about interoperability matrices and best practices for Fibre Channel and FCoE deployments.
Unified Fabric in the Data Center
Learn how a university reduced projected infrastructure costs by 50 percent. View Video (4:06 min)
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Consolidate, Scale, and Save
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is an INCITS T11 industry standard that allows Fibre Channel to be carried over Ethernet links. It drastically reduces the number of I/O adapters, cables, and switches in the data center, while providing a wire-once, agile infrastructure.
Based on lossless, reliable 10 Gigabit Ethernet, FCoE networks combine LAN and multiple storage protocols on a single converged network. This technology is one of the core components of Cisco Unified Fabric.
With multihop FCoE, high-performance, high-density Ethernet switches such as the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series are used as core and Cisco Nexus 5000 Series can be used as access switches. These switches support multiple Ethernet storage protocols offering superior investment protection for enterprise and virtualization environments and cloud-ready data centers.
Reduce Ownership Costs and Increase Resilience
- Reduce the number of adapters, cables, and network infrastructure devices
- Reduce power use
- Simplify management
- Use higher performance, multiprotocol Ethernet switches
- Support any traffic type with wire-once agility
- Protect Fibre Channel investments by integrating with existing Fibre Channel SANs
FCoE helps you maintain and manage data center costs through network consolidation to pave the way for business growth.
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches
Deploy director-class, converged networks.
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches
Support highly flexible access-layer deployments.
Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors
Integrate converged networks with director-class Fibre Channel SANs.
Cisco Unified Computing System
Unite computing, network, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system with this next-generation data center platform.
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(PDF - 860 KB)IDC: The ROI of Converged Networking Using Unified Fabric
(PDF - 330 KB)Storage I/O: Business and Technology Benefits of Converged I/O Networking Infrastructures
(PDF - 440 KB)Storage I/O: Removing Organizational Barriers for Leveraging Technology Convergence
(PDF - 350 KB)Considerations for Congestion Notification in FCoE Networks
(PDF - 310 KB)Director-Class FCoE: Converge the Network with Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches and Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors
FCoE Fault Tolerance: Achieve High Availability in a Converged Network
FCoE Initiation Protocol
FCoE Management: Secure Storage Traffic in a Converged Network
Fibre Channel over Ethernet Storage Networking Evolution
iSCSI and FCoE: A Comparison
QLogic Adapters and Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches: FCoE Design Guide
(PDF - 2 MB)Summary: Does Converging the LAN and SAN Make Sense
(PDF - 62 KB)Thought Leadership Discussion on Does Converging the LAN and SAN Make Sense
(PDF - 80 KB)
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