IBM Converged Switch B32This IBM® Redbooks® document introduces the IBM Converged Switch B32. This switch supports Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Fibre Channel, Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE), and traditional Ethernet protocol connectivity for servers and storage. FCoE is a new protocol that can expand Fibre Channel into the Ethernet environment, and it helps to combine and leverage the advantages of two technologies, Fibre Channel protocol and Ethernet. Features of the IBM Converged Switch B32 include:
In the related publication An Introduction to Fibre Channel over Ethernet, and Fibre Channel over Convergence Enhanced Ethernet, REDP-4493 we introduce FCoE and CEE concepts. |
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1002 cee default Administration panel advertise bandwidth Brocade cable cee default shutdown CEE interface CEE map classifier activate group Click configuration mode congestion connected Converged Enhanced Ethernet Converged Network Converged Switch B32 converged vlan classifier DCBX device Disable displayed enable ENode Example Fabric FC ports FCoE ports Fibre Channel Figure Gbps group 1 vlan IBM Converged Switch IBM System IEEE jumbo frames LACP Layer Link Aggregation LLDP login group MAC address mode converged vlan multicast Traffic Class Operands options packet expansion PCI Express PGID Port Administration panel port-channel Priority Traffic Classes QLogic queue range of valid scheduling Select server SFP+ Spanning Tree Protocol Specifies storage switchport mode converged switchport switchport mode Synopsis System x traffic class mapping trunk user priority valid values vlan classifier activate vlan classifier group vlan classifier rule VLAN configuration VLAN ID VN_Port Weighted Round Robin