With some help from Dell ProSupport I've pieced together the following configuration for my environment, and I've successfully established connection with my LUN on my FC SAN and created a VMFS6 datastore for my ESXi servers :BigSmile: Environment: So the FCoE/FC traffic will be like this: For ethernet uplink, we use port 41 on each FSE using a breakout cable for 4x10GbE, where we so far only use two of them from each FSE. Using VLT, and a LACP trunk to our core, we have 4x10GbE total uplink for ethernet.For FC uplink, using port 44, we also have a break out cable, set to 4x16G, and here too we only use 2 of them from each FSE. Best practice dictates we use one uniqe vlan ID in each FSE so we can be sure we won't have FCoE crosstalk over the VLT interconnect, having each FSE as a separate fabric (vfabric) for FC/FCoE. Each FC uplink connects only to one FC brocade fabric. My configuration for FCoE is so far like this: FSE-A1: FSE-A2: FSE (both switches): FSE-A1: FSE-A2: You should now (hopefully) be able to get some data in the different 'show' commands for FCoE/FC: Example (i've masked the MACs/WWNs) - shows my 4 servers with CNA card (FCoE enabled with NPAR-configuration): Hopefully this can help others get FCoE going on MX-infrastructure..
We just got the new MX infrastructure, MX7000 chassis, MX740c servers, and MX9116n Fabric Switch Engines. While we will be switching to ethernet based storage later, we still have FC and thus, our plan is to use FCoE on the (esxi-)servers and use forward it as normal FC traffic to our Brocade FC switches on switch port 44 (configured for FC mode 16-4x) Problem - I know little about FCoE configuration. I found this, but it didn't really help me too much: [URL] Do I need to venture into vFrabric configuration on the MX9116n? what FC feature mode, FPORT? NPG? Do I use FIP? Do I assign the vlan set for FCoE onto the CNA card, or use FIP alone? Have anyone configured the following "path" and can share some config examples? MX740c-with-CNA_FCoE <-> MX9116n <-> FC breakout cable 4x16Gb (port 44) <-> Brocade FC-SW <-> FC-Storage I'm using the switches (two MX9116n) in full-switch mode btw.
MX9116n FCoE-FC configuration?