We've been big Cisco customers for years and ever since I saw FCoE I thought it was a disaster. All of the DCB extensions that had to go into ethernet to get it to work was such an ugly mess. It was just too complicated compared to alternatives, and iSCSI got a free ride on all that work (ethernet pause, flow control, etc) and was far simpler to implement. And of course with lots of 10Gb options with iSCSI offload, it was getting harder and harder to find any advantage LARGE ENOUGH in FCoE to justify it's cost and complexity.
Completely agreed, but it is something that Cisco was still pushing fairly heavily alongside their partners. Various different vendors bought into it, and it was deployed heavily in various different MSP's.
The complexity of FCoE is staggering, and the configuration required across all the different moving pieces to make it a success made things even more difficult!
