Huawei Launching FCoE Interface Working With Intel

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. announced a new generation of FCoE (FCoE, FC-BB-6) interface in its portfolio of storage systems.

Based on VN2VN technology, the new FCoE interface reduces FCoE deployment costs.

Huawei has worked closely with Intel to test and validate FCoE VN2VN interoperability with Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapters.

The new FCoE interface technology will be adopted into Huawei’s portfolio of storage systems. With the interface, resources of both SAN and LAN will be converged into a unified network platform, simplifying network systems, and at the same time, enabling network flexibility that expands on demand. The FCoE interface has 20% better performance than the iSCSI interface. Through replacing additional FCoE switches and reducing numbers of NICs and cables, the new FCoE interface can reduce investment and maintenance costs of data center storage systems and network by over 50%.

As part of the initial roll-out, the new VN2VN FCoE technology will be adopted in the T series, Huawei’s storage systems.

Huawei welcomes opportunities to work with industry leaders on joint innovation projects with mutually beneficial outcomes. The long-standing relationship with Intel, which has seen the development of multiple cutting edge technologies across enterprise industries, has proved successful. Since September 2012, they have worked together on the global development of products and solutions in the IT domain, focusing on products and solutions for servers, storage systems, data centers and cloud computing.

"Network convergence is the irreversible trend in IT industry and with Huawei’s storage products being an important component of the industry’s IT network systems, we are committed to providing storage solutions with better stability, scalability and higher efficiency," said Fan Ruiqi, president, storage product line, Huawei enterprise business group. "Through the collaboration with Intel on the FCoE VN2VN technology, Huawei is able to address customers’ ever changing needs on the convergence of storage and network. With storage solutions that ensure reliability, simplicity and agility, Huawei targets to become the optimal choice for customers worldwide."

"Intel has been working closely with industry standards bodies and leading storage vendors such as Huawei to bring the benefits of VN2VN to customers," said Dawn Moore , GM, Intel Corp.‘s networking division. "Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapters combine high performance and unified networking features to reduce costs and complexity for connections between the server and access layer. Now, with VN2VN, customers can use FCoE from the server to the storage target for additional savings."

Huawei has collaborated closely with Intel, the primary author of the VN2VN code submitted to the Open FCoE project, to test and implement VN2VN functionality in Huawei storage systems.