There is an effort to develop a software target along with the open-FCoE stack. This would help reduce some of the cost by removing the need for target and possible a switch. (back to back configuration: FCoE initiator to software target) You would still need a 10Gb adapter on both ends. There is already some support for this in opensuse, fedora and ubuntu. Thanks, On 12/10/2011 03:59 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Including debian-devel.. > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Open-FCoE for Wheezy > Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:31:01 +0530 > From: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@debian.org> > Reply-To: rrs@debian.org > Organization: RESEARCHUT > To: debian-release@lists.debian.org > > > > Any suggestions? > > It is a new and expensive technology and hasn't seen much adoption yet. > > > On 12/02/2011 01:14 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: >> Hello Release Team, >> >> Please provide me some Release readiness assistance for Open-FCoE's >> inclusion for Wheezy/Sid >> >> Open-FCoE [1], is a newer SAN technology to carry Fiber Channel traffic >> over Ethernet. The ethernet is generalized in the definition but in >> reality, a newer 10 GiB DCB Ethernet card is required for FCoE >> capabilities. Also to mention the refreshes required on the switch >> infrastructure. >> >> My initial hope was to get some access to FCoE hardware setup that I >> could spare for Debian. Unfortunately, for multiple reasons that didn't >> happen and I don't see having access to the hardware any time soon. >> >> Open-FCoE stack is currently in experimental. I have had no [bug] >> reports yet. Also the popcon stats is very low. >> >> >> The assistance I'm seeking from you is about its release readiness for >> Wheezy/Sid. Should I get these packages uploaded to Wheezy/Sid? There >> might not be many packaging errors, but with no real user testing in a >> production environment, I have no idea how the stack will behave. >> >> >> Should I go ahead with the inclusion of Open-FCoE into the Debian archive? >> >> >> [1] http://www.open-fcoe.org >> > > > -- > Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs > Debian - The Universal Operating System > > > > -- Jack Morgan
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