Deploying FCoE with EMC Video Supplemental Slides Stuart Miniman, Technologist, Office of the CTO EMC Corporation

Cisco Nexus 5010 Converged Network Switch EMC qualification and EMC Connectrix availability expected in Q209 QLogic QLE81xx Series 2 nd Generation Converged Network Adapter EMC qualification and EMC Select availability expected in 2H09 Seen in the video

Cisco Nexus 5010 Converged Network Switch

EMC qualification and EMC Connectrix availability expected in Q209

QLogic QLE81xx Series 2 nd Generation Converged Network Adapter

EMC qualification and EMC Select availability expected in 2H09

10 Gigabit Ethernet Cabling *10GBase-CX is another copper option, not expected in most 10 Gb Ethernet High power and cost today Keep existing cabling layout (> 1 B ports) and patch panel infrastructure Cat6 55m; Cat 6a 100m Cat6 or Cat6a Copper (10GBase-T) / RJ-45 Distance limited to rack Passive = Very low power 5m Twinax Copper / SFP+DA (direct attach) Optical historically 1% of overall Ethernet ports Provides extended distance for backbone or core OM2 82m; OM3 300m OM2 ( orange ) or OM3 ( aqua ) Optical (multimode) / LC – + Distance Cable Type / Connector

FCoE Server Phase (today) FCoE with direct attach of server to Converged Network Switch at top of rack or end of row Tightly controlled solution Server 10GE adapters may be CNA or NIC Storage is still a separate network Converged Network Switch FC Attach Rack Mounted Servers 10GbE CNAs Ethernet FC Ethernet LAN Storage Fibre Channel SAN

FCoE with direct attach of server to Converged Network Switch at top of rack or end of row

Tightly controlled solution

Server 10GE adapters may be CNA or NIC

Storage is still a separate network

References For More FCoE 2 FCoE Presentations at May 18-21, 2009 Stuart Miniman: Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), iSCSI and the Converged Data Center E-Lab: FCoE - Considerations for Deploying Fibre Channel Over Ethernet FCoE in the EMC Topology Guide http://elabnavigator.emc.com Industry site with consolidated information http://www.fcoe.com/ EMC FCoE Videos – search “FCoE” on YouTube EMC FCoE whitepaper http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h5916-intro-to-fcoe-wp.pdf T11 FCoE activity http://www.t11.org/fcoe IEEE 802.1 Data Center Bridging task group page http://www.ieee802.org/1/pages/dcbridges.html

2 FCoE Presentations at May 18-21, 2009

Stuart Miniman: Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), iSCSI and the Converged Data Center

E-Lab: FCoE - Considerations for Deploying Fibre Channel Over Ethernet

FCoE in the EMC Topology Guide http://elabnavigator.emc.com

Industry site with consolidated information http://www.fcoe.com/

EMC FCoE Videos – search “FCoE” on YouTube

EMC FCoE whitepaper http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h5916-intro-to-fcoe-wp.pdf

T11 FCoE activity http://www.t11.org/fcoe

IEEE 802.1 Data Center Bridging task group page http://www.ieee802.org/1/pages/dcbridges.html

Stuart Miniman, Technologist, Office of the CTO EMC Corporation