Software FCoE - A Case Study

FCoE (Fiber Channel over Ethernet) is an emerging data center technology, the benefits of which include reduced data center management efforts, cost and power consumption amongst others. We are planning to present an introduction to FCoE followed by discussions related to software and hardware based FCOE implementations. We are planning to cover the following as part of the presentation: Examples of FCOE implementation on host followed by comparison of hardware and software implementations.

High level design and short comings of OpenFCoE
Approach for configuring two servers as FCoE initiator and target using OpenFCoE
Also discuss the design approach for one other software based FCOE solution and compare it with OpenFCoE
Learning Objectives

Understand differences between hardware & software FCoE implementations
Understand Design of software implementations
Understand comparison of Design approaches (pros & cons)