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Which description of a vFC interface is true?
The correct answer is B. It must be bound to an FCoE-enabled Ethernet or EtherChannel interface. A vFC interface is a logical FC interface that requires binding to a physical FCoE-capable Ethernet or EtherChannel interface to transport FC frames over Ethernet.
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Which description of a vFC interface is true?
Options
- AIt can be associated to more than one VSAN
- BIt must be bound to an FCoE-enabled Ethernet or EtherChannel interface.
- CIt can be associated to a private VLAN
- DIt can be associated to an FCoE VLAN
How the community answered
(47 responses)- A2% (1)
- B91% (43)
- C2% (1)
- D4% (2)
Why each option
A vFC interface is a logical FC interface that requires binding to a physical FCoE-capable Ethernet or EtherChannel interface to transport FC frames over Ethernet.
A vFC interface can only be a member of a single VSAN; VSAN membership is one-to-one per vFC interface, not multi-VSAN.
A vFC interface is a virtual Fibre Channel interface that has no physical transport of its own. It must be explicitly bound to an FCoE-enabled physical Ethernet or EtherChannel interface on the Nexus switch, which provides the actual Layer 2 transport for encapsulated FC frames. This binding is a required configuration step and is what allows the vFC to participate in the FCoE fabric.
Private VLANs are a Layer 2 Ethernet isolation feature and are not applicable to vFC interfaces, which operate within the FC/VSAN domain rather than the VLAN domain.
vFC interfaces are associated with VSANs, not FCoE VLANs; the FCoE VLAN is configured on the bound Ethernet interface and mapped to a VSAN, but the vFC itself joins a VSAN, not a VLAN.
Concept tested: vFC interface binding requirement to FCoE Ethernet
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus5000/sw/fcoe/521_n1_1/b_5k_fcoe_config_521N11/b_5k_fcoe_config_521N11_chapter_010.html
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