How to configure fibre channel over Ethernet on linux step by step guide

In this article we learn how to configure fibre channel oner Ethernet on linux system step by step.

What is FCoE

FcoE is a storage protocol which established a communication of the fibre channel over the Ethernet and encapsulated fibre channel frame over the Ethernet.

Pre-requisite of LAB to configure fibre channel over Ethernet on linux

We need two packages to configure fibre channel over Ethernet on linux. one is fcoe-utils and other is lldpad. If these two packages are not installed into the system we nedd to install these two packages to configure FCoE on linux system.

To install these two packages into the linux system we execute the below command.

#yum install fcoe-utils lldpad –y

Procedure to configure fibre channel over Ethernet on linux

Step1: After installing these two packages, there is a default file ifcfg-ethx which is located at /etc/fcoe. We have to copy this file to our desired interface.

Suppose our desire interface is ifcfg-ethy. So we execute the below command.

#cp /etc/fcoe/ifcfg-ethx /etc/fcoe/ifcfg-ethy

Step2: After doing this we edit the /etc/fcoe/ifcfg-ethy file and change the DCB_REQUIRED parameter value to NO(if dcbclient is not required). By default this parameter value set to yes.

How to configure fibre channel over Ethernet on linux step by step guide

Step3: Now go to the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory and select your desired interface which you are going to configure as FCoE and edit the interface and change onboot parameter to yes to enable the startup mode.

Step4: now start the lldpad service and fcoe service and also enable these service at the startup mode to execute the below command.

#service lldpad start;service fcoe start

#chkconfig lldpad on;chkconfig fcoe on

Step5: Now check your configuration is it successfuly configured or not to execute the below command.

#fcoeadm -i

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How to configure fibre channel over Ethernet on linux step by step guide