Meeting - 03/18/2016  2PM EST

UNH-IOL - reserved the IOl GTP for the week of June 20, 2016.  6/20 - 6/24


NDA - registered with FCIA - thank you!  
                                      Participated 03/18/2016
1.	Amphenol                      Greg
2.	ATTO                          -
3.	Emulex/AVAGO/Broadcom, Ltd    Mark       
4.	Brocade                       Earl
5.	Cisco                         Nick
6.	HPE                           Barry
7.	Molex                         Jay
8.	QLogic                        Nishant
9.	Optoway                       - 
10.	SANBlaze                      -
11.	Viavi                         -
12.     UNH-IOL                       Tim

Cost: 
Sponsor Member:    $1,500 
Principal Member:  $2,000 
Associate Member:  $2,500 
Observer Member:   $3,000 
EA & SNIA Members: $3,500 
Non-FCIA Member:   $4,000 

Obviously we need to tailor the testing to the Monday @noon to Friday@noon time frame which 
is 4 days of time.  
Test tracks from the last plugfest 8AM-6PM each day. Likely that we will need to stay later - 8PM.

Looking for sponsors for Wed. evening at Portsmouth Brewery.

Registration pointer - will be available soon for members to log theire equipment.

UNH-IOL and FCIA agreement is OK.  Tim will send copy to Mark.


 Testing Scope: 
� 32GFC, 128GFC, 128GFC breakout - I - sw- t rate test.
   Direct connect - I - T direct connect test. 
� 32GFC  distance - SMF 10km (availability of LW transceivers?) - LR optics 
(if transceivers can be made available - would like to do this test)
� FCoE Interop focus on NPV aggregation links - 25G availability?  TEst track will be developed.  
 - FCoE interop - NPV bridge
   VN - VF test  is of interest for Brocade, Cisco, HPE 
   
� BB6 VN2VN testing - ?  Is there an interest 
� Security   - need more specific recommendations - what do we want to do with security ?  
� Backward compatibility 
� OpenStack Cinder Block Storage? Not much interest
� Additional testing include (but not limited to): 
� Port channels 
� Link Aggregation (LACP) 
� Static or passive 
� Active 
� ON 
� T10-PI and DIX
� Non-symmetrical 10G and 40G members in port-channel groups 
� Additional Zoning interactions/enhancements (e.g., Target-Driven Zoning) 
� VN2VN links 
� Validate that Multiple FCoE VLANS per channel or Aggregation group can be configured along 
  with Ethernet traffic 
� ETS and PFC operations validation 
� Failover policies 
� Keystone and FC-SP-2 intersection 

What will likely be tested - from previous discussions ?
o	Gen 6 / 32Gb focused spanning FCoE (25Gb, 50Gb, 100Gb)
?	Cable, media, negotiation in-between; 
�	backwards compatibility with 16Gb - 8Gb
�	32Gb multipath performance to 16Gb storage devices 
�	126Gb 
?	Analysis and traffic generation
?	Physical media testing 
?	Security?

-logins happen correctly
-storage information is correct
-Move data with IOMeter - or other load generator (MEDUSA - MLTT)
-Name server entries are correct
-start up Initiator first, then target, then switch (test each starting up first)
   -setting different(3) hard coded speeds on each of the 3 above, and auto-negotiating

Tim - receiver tests  Greg suggests some basic conformance test before general interop tests
    - transmitter tests
Problem with pattern generation.
Tim - IOL has contacts.

Is 16G and 32G copper supported?  Not in the 32G spec.  There will be AOC 32G.
Can plan on 32G AOC tests at 32G.

Request that transceiver lockout be disabled (if possible).   
Test a matrix of multi-vendor transceivers.  

Here is a list of tests that the IOL currently  offers at the PHY level.   

Tx, Rx, BERT
TX, Optical (FC-PI-5 clause 6)
signal rate
Avg launched power
optical modulation
rise & fall times(4G)
transmitter eye mask
Transmitter Jitter(4G0)
transmitter wavefrom(8G)
vertical eye closure penalty(16G)

BERT FC-PI-5
Electrical BER
Optical BER


Electrical PI-5 clause 9
Nominal bit rate
Voltage moduleation amplitude
rise and fall times
transmitter eye mask
transmitter Jitter
tramitter RMS common mode voltage
Transmitter waveform distortion penalty(8G)
FC return loss verification
transmitter differential mode return loss
tx common mode return loss
rx differential mode return loss
rx common mode return loss (16G)
transmitter differential to common mode coversion ration(8&16G)
rx differential to common mode conversion ratio(8&16G)

Maybe we want to test primitives and primitive sequences?  
or do we want to test higher level messaging?