From the course: Introduction to SAN and NAS Storage

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FCoE overview

FCoE overview

From the course: Introduction to SAN and NAS Storage

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FCoE overview

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- FCoE, that's Fiber Channel over Ethernet, was seen as possibly the next big thing in storage networking when it first came out. It's really fallen out of favor over the last few years, though, and you would have been much more likely to see iSCSI being used if you were deploying SAN over an Ethernet network. All of the major storage vendors do still support FCoE, though, and it's possible that you will still run into it in real world deployments, so let's cover it here. (pumping electronic music) Fiber Channel over Ethernet became possible when 10 gigabits Ethernet came out. That provided enough bandwidth to support both data and storage traffic over the same shared network infrastructure. Before 10 gigabits Ethernet, our servers had one gigabit Ethernet cards in there, and that was really pushing it, about having enough bandwidth to run both storage and data traffic over that same physical card. FCoE uses the Fiber Channel Protocol, FCP, exactly the same as Fiber Channel does, but…

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