Intel Wants Servers to Have Open FCoE Inside

“In April, Open-FCoE moved a step closer to its goal when its
FCoE initiator, along with the data center bridging (DCB) drivers,
which provide the quality of service that organizations need to be
able to run Fibre Channel over Ethernet on a unified wire (along
with other traffic types), were included in the 2.6.29 Linux
kernel. The Open-FCoE project also released a generic Fibre Channel
library and a generic Fibre Channel over Ethernet library, which
provide a standard interface for Fibre Channel or FCoE devices to
plug into the operating system, which Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is using
in one of its drivers.

“As a result of being included in the Linux kernel, Open-FCoE’s
code was also included in Red Hat’s (NYSE: RHT) Enterprise Linux
(RHEL) 5.3 distribution as a tech preview, “indicating the future
acceptance of this technology as part of the Linux infrastructure,
much like iSCSI, TCP/IP and other native OS protocols,” said Jordan
Plawner, senior product planner at Intel.”

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