What's New?

• Support for NPIV is included in the Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) Build 92, and all subsequent builds.

  NPIV is a Fibre Channel facility that enables one Fibre Channel adapter to have many N Port IDs. Each N Port has a unique identity (port WWN and node WWN) on the SAN and can be used for zoning and LUN masking. Soft zoning, which you can use to group ports together by port WWN, is the preferred method of zoning. For more information, see Chapter 6, Configuring Virtual Fibre Channel Ports.

• Support for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is included in the SXCE Build 122, and all subsequent builds.

  Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a proposed standard that is being developed by INCITS T11. The FCoE protocol specification maps Fibre Channel natively over Ethernet and is independent of the Ethernet forwarding scheme. The protocol provides I/O consolidation by preserving all Fibre Channel constructs, maintaining the same latency, security, and traffic management attributes of FC, while preserving investments in FC tools, training, and SANs. For more information, see Chapter 7, Configuring FCoE Ports.