FCoE

The SANBlaze FCoE VirtuaLUN is the key piece of test equipment for anyone developing products supporting FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet). The VirtuaLUN feature set provides a unique set of functions applicable in all aspects of a product lifecycle; from development to design validation and test and QA. The ability to emulate targets and/or initiators with a wide range of configurable attributes provides engineers with a flexible, scalable tool to simulate real Data Center Ethernet and SAN environments, at a fraction of the cost of real devices.

Easily configurable target environments with optional storage profiles can be edited and saved for reuse. Engineers will appreciate the easy “3-click” quick start capability to either generate or terminate I/O traffic. Multiple error conditions and triggers allow for complex error injection. Custom command generation and predefined tests provide simulated host environments. Users can build up a library of test cases which can be easily retrieved and leveraged later in scripts to validate adapter, switches and storage, including flow control between FCoE and legacy Fibre Channel.

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Typical Applications

Validate FCoE CNA (Converged network adapter)
Validate FCoE storage arrays
Performance testing
Test/validate FCoE to FC bridging and interoperability
Error handling testing
Scalability testing such as:

  • Max Targets capability
  • Max LUN capability
  • Max I/O (queue full)
  • Max capacity (volumes)
  • Max and Min Throughput
  • All CDB (norm, vendor unique)
  • Persistent Reservations
  • Failover Testing

Features

  • Simulated FCoE and/or Fibre Channel disk drives, tapes, disk arrays and tape libraries
  • Full line rate performance
  • Launch via web or CLI script
  • Save/load configurations
  • Multi-target and Initiator support (NPIV)
  • Generate/Consume non-FCoE traffic as well (TCP/UDP)
  • Congestion management
  • Pause support
  • Error injection
  • Traffic priority control
  • Frame size control (MTU)
  • Configurable MAC address
  • FCoE header manipulation
  • Congestion simulation
  • CRC corruption injection
  • Packet capture and decode

Resources per Port

  • Up to 256 Targets per port
  • Up to 512 LUNs per port (disk and/or tape)
  • Up to 256 Initiators per port