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Which statement describes monitoring Fibre Channel traffic on a Cisco UCS 6332 Fabric Interconnect?
The correct answer is B. Fibre Channel traffic is capable to be monitored as it is encapsulated as FCoE. On a Cisco UCS 6332 Fabric Interconnect, Fibre Channel traffic is encapsulated as FCoE for transport, making it monitorable using standard Ethernet monitoring features like SPAN.
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Which statement describes monitoring Fibre Channel traffic on a Cisco UCS 6332 Fabric Interconnect?
Options
- AFibre Channel traffic is monitored only on one vHBA per server.
- BFibre Channel traffic is capable to be monitored as it is encapsulated as FCoE.
- CThe monitoring of Fibre Channel traffic is limited to the default VSAN.
- DThe destination port for monitoring must be an unassigned Fibre Channel port.
How the community answered
(27 responses)- B93% (25)
- C4% (1)
- D4% (1)
Why each option
On a Cisco UCS 6332 Fabric Interconnect, Fibre Channel traffic is encapsulated as FCoE for transport, making it monitorable using standard Ethernet monitoring features like SPAN.
Fibre Channel traffic monitoring on UCS is not limited to one vHBA per server; monitoring can be configured for any vHBA or port carrying FCoE traffic.
On Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects, Fibre Channel traffic is encapsulated as Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) before being transmitted over the Ethernet fabric. This encapsulation makes the Fibre Channel traffic appear as standard Ethernet frames, allowing it to be monitored using typical Ethernet monitoring features such as Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) or Encapsulated Remote SPAN (ERSPAN) on the Fabric Interconnects.
Monitoring of FCoE traffic is not limited to the default VSAN; it can be configured to capture traffic for any VSAN that is mapped to an FCoE VLAN.
The destination port for monitoring (e.g., a SPAN destination) can be any appropriate Ethernet port connected to a monitoring device, not specifically an unassigned Fibre Channel port.
Concept tested: Cisco UCS FCoE traffic monitoring
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/ucs-manager/cli-reference/1-0/olhcg/olhcg_chapter_0100.html
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