The purpose of the blog is to inform you of a new application note written by the Implementer’s Lab as how to enable FCoE with IBM’s Feature on Demand (FoD).
This past October, IBM announced an IBM BladeCenter HS23 which was one of the first IBM BladeCenter servers to offer four integrated LAN ports. The Emulex 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) Virtual Fabric Adapter II (VFA II) for IBM BladeCenter HS23 LAN on Motherboard (LOM) is integrated into select IBM BladeCenter HS23 blade servers. It features two physical 10GbE ports and two physical 1GbE ports. This LOM solution can be configured to provide up to eight virtual ports (four per physical 10GbE port) each of which can operate at 100Mb – 10Gb with a maximum of 10Gb per physical port.
Emulex Technical Marketing received a pair of new IBM HS23 Blades to test with FCoE. Given the Emulex 10GbE VFAII capabilities and flexibility, two virtual ports can be configured for storage connectivity for iSCSI or FCoE. Because this capability is disabled out of the box and must be unlocked using IBM’s FoD). The Implementer’s Lab team decided to write an application note to help with the unlocking process. Please check out the application note here for more detail on how to enable FCoE with IBM BladeCenter HS23 using IBM FoD and let us know what you think!