[ArchOversight]

FCoE was (and may still be) pushed heavily by Cisco. It was neat, being able to have your Cisco UCS devices talk to both Fibre Channel NetApp and Ethernet all on the same link.

It worked fairly well once it was up and running, and you set the QoS correctly so that FC traffic won out over Ethernet because Fiber Channel does NOT tolerate drops very well.

[duxup]

Cisco's FC solutions were always a weird effort to merge their own IP tech in here or there and it just always felt half thought through to me.

[ArchOversight]

Bugs... so many bugs in the various pieces. But I can say it was fairly rock solid once it was up and running.

[duxup]

Yeah Cisco's FC products were pretty buggy. I preferred Brocade.

FC is solid generally once you've got it running, the protocol kinda ensures that.