FCoE VLAN with OTV or FCIP across WAN.

[Mohammed Khair Khomakho]

Hello All,

I am wondering how would we extend a FCoE VLAN/VSAN to remote DC.

Can we use the extended VLAN from OTV and use it for FCoE or FCIP to span the SAN using N5K?

I appreciate if someone let me know what are the options to extend the VSAN/SAN across WAN.

Best Regards        

Mohammed Khair Khomakho
CCIE Routing and Switching #26682       

[Surya ARBY]

You can use FCIP (if running a common Ethernet/IP-based backbone) or direct fiber connection (through xWDM). There is no way to carry FCoE over non DCB nodes.

[Mohammed Khair Khomakho]

Hi Surya,

Thank you for your reply.

Can you please send me a link of Cisco Nexus 5000 FCIP implementation.

Mohammed Khair Khomakho
CCIE Routing and Switching #26682

[Surya ARBY]

FCIP is not supported on Nexus 5K; you'll have to put an MDS switch supporting the feature.

[azzafir]

Sorry just to elaborate on the above question. If I already have OTV on nexus 7k that is used to link between 2 remote sites, can we make use of this existing link to support FCoE? Traditionally we used FCIP on MDS, to link between remote sites to extend our VSAN traffics. So can we use FCoE to run between sites connected by OTV. Thanks.

[Surya ARBY]

No, you need direct fiber connetions.