We have direct attached Netapp storage to the FIs configured as fcoe storage ports, the FIs are in FC-switch mode. I see the netapp flogied into the FIs so the FC part looks good. On the netapp side we have one 10g interface, e1a, with an ip address on it. We have another 10g interface, e1b, with vlans attached to it so that interface sends and receives dot1q tagged frames.
All the documentation seems to imply that ip traffic won't work at all on an FCOE storage port. Yet, e1a works fine while e1b does not.
Question 1: My theory is the plain ethernet on e1a works ok but the dot1q tagging on e1b is what actually doesn't work on the FCOE storage port. Am I correct?
Question 2: I think to get dot1q working I need to switch to change the FI port type from FCOE storage to Appliance port. Is that just as simple as chaning the port type via ucs manager? Does that take the FCOE link offline or anything?
