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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2013
Claudio Desanti, Oakland, CA (US);
Claudio DeSanti, Oakland, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An example method for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) support in a Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) network environment is provided and includes configuring at least two virtual storage area networks (SANs) in a TRILL network environment, which includes a plurality of leaf switches and spine switches, with each leaf switch being configured as a FCoE forwarder (FCF) enabled to forward frames according to FCoE protocol, and configuring at least an edge broadcast domain and a transport broadcast domain for each virtual SAN at each leaf switch. The edge broadcast domain includes end device links between the leaf switch and one or more end devices, and the transport broadcast domain includes spine links between the leaf switch and the spine switches.