Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Search Storage, Tuesday, January 2th, 2024
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FcoE) is a storage protocol that enables Fibre Channel (FC) communications to run directly over Ethernet.
FCoE makes it possible to move Fibre Channel traffic across an existing high-speed Ethernet infrastructure and converge storage and IP protocols onto a single cable transport and interface. The goal of FCoE is to consolidate input/output and reduce switch complexity, as well as to cut back on cable and interface card counts.
Traditionally, organizations have used Ethernet for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, or TCP/IP, networks and FC for storage area networks (SANs). Fibre Channel protocol supports high-speed data connections among computing devices that interconnect servers with shared storage resources and between storage controllers and drives via a SAN. FCoE shares Fibre Channel and Ethernet traffic on the same physical cable or lets organizations separate Fibre Channel and Ethernet traffic on the same hardware.