Method, apparatus, name server and system for establishing FCOE communication connection

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions for establishing an FCoE connection between a first target device and an FCoE initiator configured to initiate a data access operation of the first FCoE target device, the computer executable instructions comprising instructions for:

• sending, to one or more FCoE forwarders and one or more target devices in the lossless Ethernet, discovery solicitation messages for acquiring Media Access Control (MAC) addresses of the FCoE forwarders and the target devices;
• receiving, from one or more of the FCoE forwarders and one or more of the target devices, discovery advertisement messages in response to the discovery solicitation messages, wherein one of the discovery advertisement messages sent from the first target device includes a first MAC address of the first target device;
• sending, to a name server, a message including a World Wide Name (WWN) identifier of the first target device for acquiring identifier information of the first target device;
• receiving, from the name server, an answer message carrying the identifier information of the first target device;
• determining that the identifier information matches with at least a portion of the first MAC address of the first target device;
• and
• performing, a login operation to establish the FCoE connection with the first target device according to the first MAC address.