Not sure what you mean by “host machine”. FCoE can be used by both the 
hypervisor and the VMs using the N_Port virtualization capability. And when do 
you think would be the “right” time?

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VLAN space exhaustion is not an issue with FCoE. Generally you have (1) FCoE 
VLAN per (1) FC VSAN. And many host machines can access storage on the same 
VSAN.

I agree with previous comments that FCoE is used by the host machine, not the 
VMs. Hence FCoE operates on the underlay, not the overlay, and therefore should 
be out of scope for NVO3 (for now).

Cheers,
Brad


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Hi,
If FCoE does not transport with overlay, then do you infer that FCoE will not 
meet similar problem as NVO3 currently defined, e.g, VLAN space limitation?

Thanks
Lizhong



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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:40:37 -0400
Subject: Re: [nvo3] Let's refocus on real world (was: Comments on Live 
Migration and VLAN-IDs)
The question regarding FCoE is whether overlay solutions need to transport it.  
I think the answer is no.  If something operates at the underlay level than it 
isn't in scope for NVo3, including DCB.
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