Cisco data center training for ibm

Cisco Data Center Training for
IBM
Changing the Economics of the Data Center
Brent Anderson
Systems Engineer – DataCenter
IBM - Global
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Business Challenges
Budget
Constraints
Security and
Compliance
24x7 Business
Business
Agility
Technology Trends
Cloud Data Deluge
Proliferation
of Devices
Energy Efficiency

By 2016, annual Internet traffic
will reach 1.3 Zettabytes
Facebook processes
500+ Terabytes of data daily
150 Exabytes global size of
“Big Data” in Healthcare, growing
between 1.2 and 2.4 EX / year
AT&T transfers about 30
Petabytes of data through
its network daily
Increasing Demands on IT…
6.8B Mobile phones worldwide
118B E-mails sent daily from
a total of 3.4B e-mail accounts;
volume growing to 168B in 2015
450B Business transactions / day
over the Internet by 2020
$155B Worldwide sensor market in
2011, forecasted to grow to $240B in
2016

Percentage of Uncertain Data
You are here.
2010 2015
Source: IBM Global Technology Outlook, 2012
1023
Sensors
& Devices
Social
Media
VoIP
Enterprise
Data
Data Growth: This is only the beginning!

Most Pressing Storage Challenges
2.6
Meeting SLAs on performance, availability or recovery
Successfully troubleshooting potentially storage-related
problems
Time and/or budget to implement advanced storage
features
Time in planning/doing storage migrations/technology
refreshes
Quickly fulfilling storage provisioning requests
Complexity in managing too many storage product
Source: IDC, Storage Purchasing Trends Among US Firms, IDC QuickPoll Survey, July 2013, Doc # 243511
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30.9
28.3
26.4
23.8
28.0
42.0
.0 5.0 10.0 15.0 20.0 25.0 30.0 35.0 40.0 45.0
Other
architectures
% of respondents
Businesses Must Adapt
Excluding data growth, Satisfying SLAs is their Top Imperative / Challenge

Cisco Multi-Protocol Architecture for LAN and SAN
Industry’s Broadest Switching Portfolio
Cisco
Nexus 5000
Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager (DCNM)
Single Point of Management
Cisco
Nexus 6000
Cisco
Nexus 7000
Cisco
Nexus 1000V
Cisco
Nexus 3000
Cisco MDS
9200 Series
Cisco® MDS
9500 Series
Cisco MDS
9100 Series
Cisco
Nexus 2000
10+ Years of Proven NX-OS Operating System
From Hypervisor to Core
B22
CONSISTENT and SIMPLIFIED
Features, Management and Programmability

Multi-Protocol Storage Networking

FC
High
Performance
Data Center
Connectivity
FICON
Mainframe
Connectivity
FCIP
Long Distance
Replication
Connectivity
iSCSI-NAS
File and Block
Over IP
TCP/IP
LAN Connectivity
FCoE
SAN Protocols
LAN Protocols

Mainframe: LPAR, z/VM, Z-Linux
IBM AIX: LPAR, VIO, P-Hypervisor,
Converged I/O
IBM X86: Hypervisor (ie
Vmware,KVM, HyperV), Blade
Chassis I/O consolidation,
Converged I/O
Cisco MDS with
VSANs, IVR,
NPiV, NPV
Enhanced Ethernet and FCoE FCiP FC
Prod. VSAN
DEV VSAN
TEST
VSANs
Multi-Protocol Support
VDISK VDISK
SVC
IBM SAN Volume
Controller
Virtualized Disk of DASD
systems
WAN

Cisco Extends SAN Intelligence to Virtual Server Deployments
Fabric Scalability and Performance
Resilient, high performance fabric to support
large, dense VM environments
Performance Monitoring and Trending
VM-granular management and troubleshooting
Quality of Service (QoS)
VM-granular policy provisioning
VSANs Isolate Fault Domains
Increase availability, simplify
troubleshooting, improve security
Long Distance vMotion
Seamless migration of applications
between data centers
NPIV
V V V
V V V
SAN
Fabric
V V V
V V V
Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3

The MDS architecture has been designed to meet the
following principles:
• High Data Transfer Capability – Provide performance to meet
customer requirements
• Predictable Performance – All traffic in chassis has equal and
consistent performance no matter traffic ingresses or egresses
• Highly Available – Hardware components and Software
features are design for maximum availability
• Data Protection – Protect SAN and End devices from
corrupted frames

THE
OF ANY DIRECTOR
INDUSTRY’S MOST
NOW! STORAGE DIRECTOR
WITH
INNOVATIONS
UNMATCHED
INVESTMENT PROTECTION for the Next Decade!

WITHOUT FORKLIFT
1.5-Tbps/slot capacity
GROW
SCALE
FOR ANY SAN
Up to 384 Line Rate ports with
48x16G FC or 48x10G FCoE
3X the
PERFORMANCE of any
Director
MDS 9710 Director –Future-Proofing
For Cloud and Massive Amounts of Data
With
Q1 CY14
NOW
PRESERVE
IT OPERATIONS and KNOWLEDGE
Ease of migration
With NX-OS and DCNM
CONSISTENT
OPERATIONS

The MDS 9710 is the next generation Fibre Channel
Director from Cisco, designed for:
• Highest Scalability in the Industry
‒ 50% more Line-rate 16G FC Ports than competition
• Highest Availability in the Industry
‒ N+1 Fabric Modules protection1 provides zero impact to
Application Bandwidth in the event of a fabric card or
supervisor card failure
• Investment protection for the next decade
‒ Three times backplane bandwidth2 than competition
1 With optional fourth fabric module installed
2 With six fabric modules installed

MDS 9710 Chassis
Supervisor Engine
Fabric
Module
48 Port 16G Line Card
Fan Tray
48 Port 10GbE FCoE Module

48-Port 16G Fibre Channel Line Card
Cisco 16-Gbps Line Card
Performance 48 x 16 Gbps ports, 768 Gbps
Port Speeds 2, 4, 8, 10 and 16 Gbps Fibre Channel
Optics (sfp+) 2/4/8G FC, 4/8/16G FC, 10G FC, 10GE (FC with 10GE clock)
Port Types F, FL, E, TE, SD, ST
Port Groups Twelve 4-port port-groups
Intelligent Capabilities VSAN, IVR, FC Redirect
Buffer-to-buffer credits Up to 500 per port, 4095 with Enterprise License (510km @ 16G)

MDS 9710 PIDs Distance
16G FC SFP+
DS-SFP-FC16G-SW
• OM1 -15M, OM2 – 35M
• OM3 – 100M, OM4 – 125M
DS-SFP-FC16G-LW • 10 km
8G FC SFP+
DS-SFP-FC8G-SW
• OM2 -100M, OM3 – 150M
• OM4 – 190M
DS-SFP-FC8G-ER • 40 km
10G FC SFP+
DS-SFP-FC10G-SW
• OM1 – 33m, OM2 – 82 m, OM3 – 300
m
10GE SFP+
SFP-10G-SR • 300 m
SFP-10G-LR • 10 km
SFP-10G-ER • 40 km
8G CWDM* DS-CWDM8G-xxxx
• 25 km with CWDM Mux and Demux
• 40 km point to point

MDS 9710 48-Port FCoE Module
Seamless Bridge FC SANs to Converged Networks
MDS 9700 Chassis
Use-cases
 Create FCoE ISLs between N7K/MDS
 Bridge Converged Networks to FC SANs
 Enabling services such as FCIP to Converged Networks
 High-density (48-Port) Line Rate FCoE Module
 Supported in any MDS 9700 chassis
48-port 10-Gbps FCoE Line Card
Benefits
Q2’14
Preserves existing and continued investments in MDS 9700
FC
Seamless interoperability between all
MDS 9700 and Nexus platforms
Preserve existing and continued investments in Fibre Channel
1
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Now With FICON Support
MDS 9710
Preparing FICON topologies for 16Gbps and 32Gbps channels
FICON | FCP | CASCADING | VSAN | CUP

MDS 9710:
Multi-hop FCoE:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutio
ns/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/un
iversity_of_siegen_external_casest
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/
ns517/ns224/mds-linkedin-cs-11_08_13.pdf
udy_fnl_01_30_13.pdf
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/
solutions/collateral/ns340/ns5
17/ns224/boeing.pdf
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/col
lateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/NetApp_exter
nal_casestudy_fnl_04_15_13.pdf
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/s
olutions/collateral/ns340/ns51
7/ns224/itochu_cs.pdf
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns3
40/ns517/ns224/molina_cs_10_31_13_final.pdf

• Each Fabric Module provides 220 Gbps of actual data bandwidth per slot, equivalent to 256
Gbps of Fibre Channel apparent bandwidth
• Three fabric modules provide 660 Gbps of actual data bandwidth per slot, equivalent to 768
Gbps of Fibre Channel apparent bandwidth
• With six fabric modules, the maximum per slot bandwidth is 1.32 Tbps of actual data
bandwidth OR 1.536 Tbps Fibre Channel apparent bandwidth

Switching Bandwidth per fabric card
Host Port
Number of Fabric
48 Port 16G FC Module
Cards
Front panel FC Bandwidth
per Slot/ Total Bandwidth
Full Line-Rate N+1 Fabric Card Protection
1 256 Gbps No No
2 512 Gbps No No
3 768 Gbps Yes No
4 768 Gbps/1024 Yes Yes
5 1280 YES YES
6 1512 YES YES
Line-rate on 48-port 16G FC Module needs only 3 Fabric cards
1
2
3
4
32Gbps
FC ready

Cisco MDS vs Brocade – 3x Performance
1536
1536
1536
1280
1280
1280
1024
1024
1024
768
768
768
512
512
512
256
256
256
0
0
0
Bandwidth- Gbps
Bandwidth - Gbps
Bandwidth - Gbps
1536
1536
1280
1280
1024
1024
768
768
512
512
256
256
0
Possible Front-Panel Bandwidth Per Slot
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 2 3 4 5 6
Number Of Fabric Cards
1 2 3 4 5 6
Bandwidth - Gbps
Number Of CR Modules
Number Of Fabric
Cards
Front-Panel FC
Bandwidth / Slot
1 256 Gbps
2 512 Gbps
3 768 Gbps
4 1024 Gbps
5 1280 Gbps
6 1536 Gbps
Number Of CR
Modules
Front-Panel FC
Bandwidth / Slot
1 256 Gbps
2 512 Gbps
Cisco MDS
9710
Brocade DCX
8510
Future Proof
Growth
0
1 2 3 4 5 6
Bandwidth - Gbps
Number Of CR Modules
Future Proof with MDS 9710 for 32G FC and 40G FCoE

3X Less Latency – any port to any port

MDS 9710 Director Highlights
14 RU
MDS 9710
Standard
Configuration
Max Configuration
Line Cards 8
Supervisor Modules 2
Fabric Modules 3 6
Power Supplies 6 8
Fan Trays 3
Chassis Height 24.35” (14 RU)
Chassis Width 17.3”
Chassis Depth 34"
Line-rate 16G Ports/system 384
Airflow Front-to-Back
17.3”

MDS 9710 Details
8 payload slots
(1.5T/slot)
6 fabric modules
(behind fan trays)
Redundant Supervisor
Engines
Front-to-back airflow
8 3000W AC/DC power
supplies
14RU
3 fan trays
Front Rear
32”

• New form factor 3000W power supply module
• Autosensing voltage detection
• Both AC and DC power supplies available
• Can mix AC and DC power supplies in same
chassis
MDS

• Maximum MDS 9710 configuration
requires 3 power supplies to operate
• Six power supplies provide grid
redundancy, three per power grid
Grid A Grid B
Power Distribution
Unit-B
Power Distribution
Unit-A

• New half-width form factor
• 10/100/1000 Management port, RJ45 Console port, 2 x USB 2.0 ports
SUP2A
MDS 9500
SUP
MDS 9710
Memory 2G 8G
# of Cores 1 4
Clock Speed 1.4 GHz 2.1 GHz
Instruction 32-bit 64-bit

MDS 9710 MDS 9513
Maximum Ports Per Chassis
384 x 2/4/8/10/16-Gbps FC
384 x 10-Gbps FCoE1
528 x 1/2/4/8/10-Gbps FC
88 x 10-Gbps FCoE
176 x 1-Gbps Ethernet
Line Card Slots 8 11
Supervisor Slots 2 2
Switching Fabric Slots 62 2
Switching Fabric 256 Gbps FC per fabric 128 Gbps FC per fabric
FC Switching Bandwidth 24-Tbps 8.4-Tbps
Physical Dimensions
24.5 x 17.37 x 34.0 in. 24.5 x 17.37 x 28.0 in.
(H x W x D)
Physical Dimensions (RU) 14 14
Weight
Chassis - 185 lbs
Power supply - 6 lbs
Fabric module - 11 lbs
Supervisor-1 - 7 lbs
Chassis - 100 lbs
Power supply - 32.5 lbs
Fabric module - 5.75 lbs
Supervisor-2/2A - 7.2 lbs
Airflow Front to back Side to side
Fan Tray Three fan trays at back Front and back fan tray

MDS 9000 Portfolio
Gen-1 (2Gb)
FC-16
Supervisor-2/2A 4-port 10Gb FC
Fabric-2
Supervisor-1
MDS 9506 &
9509
IPS-8
FC-32
SSM
MPS -14/2
MDS 9216 & 9216i
Gen-2 (4Gb)
12/24/48-port 4Gb FC
MSM-18/4
MDS 9222i
MDS 9513
MDS 9124 & 9134
Gen-3 (8Gb)
24/48-port 8Gb FC
4/44-port 8Gb FC
SSN-16
MDS 9148
EOL
Gen-4
8Gb FLR
Fabric-3
Fabric-3
32-port 8Gb FLR FC
4/44-port 8Gb FC
48-port 8Gb FC
SSN-16
MDS 9148
EOS

MDS 9250i Multiservice Fabric Switch
Next-Gen Storage Services Platform for Unified Fabric
FCiP | FC | FICON | iSCSI | FCoE
2 Ports 10GE FCIP/iSCSI 1+1 Redundant Fans
2+1 Redundant Power
Supplies
Ethernet
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Features
Line Rate Performance for
• 16G FC, 10GE FCoE, 10GE FCIP, FICON, iSCSI
Rich set of Storage Services for FC and FCoE SANs
• FCIP, IO Accelerator (IOA), Data Mobility Migration
(DMM),
Integrated Management via Data Center Network Manager
(DCNM)
Benefits
Single Platform for deploying Storage Services across FC
and FCoE Storage Area Networks (SANs)
• High-Bandwidth SAN Extension across MAN/WAN
• Migrate Data between FC and FCoE arrays
MDS 9250i
40 Ports 16G FC 8 Ports 10GE FCoE

16G FIBRE CHANNEL SWITCH FC TO FCOE GATEWAY
DATA MIGRATION
10G FCIP
MDS 9250i
MDS 9250i
Migrate Data between
Heterogenous Arrays
BUSINESS CONTINUITY/DISASTER RECOVERY
MDS 9250i
IP WAN
MDS 9250i
FC
MDS Nexus
9710
DWDM/
SONET
Optical
MAN
FC
FCoE
FCoE
FC FCoE
Nexus
Nexus

• SAN Extension is an integral component of SAN Business Solutions:
‒ Disaster Recovery – Protecting Data Through Offsite Data Replication and Backup
‒ Business Continuance – Restoration of Business After a Failure
‒ Business Resilience – Continued Operation of Business During a Failure
‒ Cloud Storage – Leveraging the Cloud for Data Storage
• Solution dependent on available DCI network and the customer business
requirements (RPO, RTO)

• SAN Extension solutions typically divided into the following categories:
Solution Solution FC FCoE FCIP
Dark Fiber
Replication -
Synchronous
1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 16G 10GE 1, 10GE
CWDM
Replication -
Synchronous
1, 2, 4, 8 10GE 1, 10GE
DWDM
Replication -
Synchronous
1, 2, 4, 8, 10G 10GE 1, 10GE
SONET/SDH
Replication –
Synchronous /
Asynchronous,
Backup
1, 2, 4, 8, 10G NA 1, 10GE
FCIP
Replication –
Asynchronous,
Backup
NA NA 1, 10GE

• SAN Extension distance is limited by two separate factors
‒ Physical Layer – How far can the optics transmit or how far does the interconnect go
(dependencies on cable type and speed)?
‒ SW optics – < 1 km,
‒ MR optics – up to 4 km
‒ LW optics – up to 10 km
‒ ER optics – up to 40 km
‒ CWDM/DWDM optics – up to 40 km point-to-point
‒ Flow control – How many frames can I have in flight?
‒ FC – Determined by BB credits
‒ FCoE – Determined by interface buffers
‒ FCIP – Determined by the TCP window size
• It is the combination of these two factors that determines how far a FC
Presentation_solution ID can be deployed
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Cisco Prime
Data Center
Network Manager

MDS Management
• Device level configuration via Cisco
4141
CLI or Device Manager application
• Initial product configuration
• VSAN configuration
• Port configuration
• Manager SNMP security access
• Manage alarms, events and notifications
• View chassis, module, port status
• Fabric wide configuration via DCNM
SAN (Java)
• Fabric wide configuration of port channels, FCIP, VSANs, etc
• Topology view
• Event monitoring
• Fabric trouble shooting tools
• Wizard-based fabric provisioning: verify changes before execution
and reduce chances for human error
• Real-time event forwarding for proactive storage network
management and reduced response time
IBM System Networking

Cisco Data Center Network Manager Advanced
Key Feature: Dynamic Dashboards
42
The Summary Dashboard is configurable to display choices include: Health, Inventory, Traffic
Flows, Connectivity, Used/Remaining Capacity

Cisco Data Center Network Manager Advanced
Feature Support and User Interface
43
• VMpath
VM connectivity to network and storage
• Standard & Custom Reports
• Provisioning NX-OS features
• Dynamic Topology Views
• Image Management
• Configuration Backup/Restore
• Rule-based event filtering and
forwarding
• Threshold Alerting
• Change Tracking and RBAC

VM SERVER
NEXUS
SWITCH
TRUNK / ISL
44
VMpath: End to End Performance Management
• Troubleshoot Performance across virtualized compute and network domains
• Understand the Impact of the path outage along with event description
• Understand behavior of your applications over a period of time
STORAGE
PORT
MDS
SWITCH

Click here for CLI Access
Select switches to open and common
credential

Reduces risk when upgrading
switch and storage arrays
Prevents outages due to missing
redundancy
Reduces time to migrate and
deploy infrastructure

SAN Host Path Redundancy Analysis
What it looks for
• Identifies non-redundant hosts
• Exceptions policy for single path hosts
• Optional storage array LUN check
• Fix recommendation
• Description of violation
• Supports FC and FCoE
• Runs every 24 hours or on demand
N77 MDS
N5K
VMWARE
Port Down on redundant fabric
MDS
MDS
STORAGE
SERVER
N5K MDS
STORAGE
MDS
MDS
MDS
Missing Zone
Time
VSAN mismatch
VSAN segmentation
LUN visible through a single fabric only

• The snooze feature will prevent forwarding of configured alerts
during specified time range.

• Scaling work being done in 6.2(7) and beyond allows for greater flexibility
in large scale SANs, especially for NPV environments
Feature 6.1(1) - 6.2(5) 6.2(7)
Phase-1
Gibraltar (7.x)
Phase-2
Flogi per line card 500 1000 1000
Flogi per NPIV core switch 2500 4000 4000
Zone members 16000 30000 30000
Zones 8000 16000 16000
Logins per fabric 10000 20000 20000
FCNS entries per fabric 10000 20000 20000
No of Domains 60 60 80
NPV switches/ NPIV Core Switch 105 105 105
Device Alias 8000 8000 20000
No. of VSANs per fabric 80 80 80

Fault Tolerance in SANs
Addressing Misbehaving Devices
Affected Host
Misbehaving HBA
• Port Guard – Shutdown the link after multiple errors
Configurable thresholds (number of errors and duration)
• Slow Drain Devices – Detect, Notify, Recover
Detect - Monitor buffer credits and ASIC queues
Notify - SNMP traps and System Logs
Recover – Configurable multi-step recovery options
Disable the port right away
Attempt to recover through timeouts and frame-drops first

Port-Guard
 The Link failure can happen for any of the following reasons.
- Cable cut (NOS/LOS)
- In case of F ports, the connected device has rebooted
- In case of ISL, the connected line card has rebooted
- Too many bit errors due to bad SFP/Cable etc.
- B2B buffer overflow condition
- Hardware Recoverable errors
 Once the condition is hit the link will be down with the ‘Error disabled - port down
due to link failure’ as the reason. This reason will also be displayed in the ‘show
interface’ command.
 User will need to perform the following to bring the link up again.
- ‘shut’ command followed by ‘no shut’ command
- Note: By default, irrespective of if this feature is enabled or not, we shut down the
port if the switch receives too many invalid flogi’s from a host.

Port-Guard config using Device Manager

Cisco Nexus B22 Fabric Extender for IBM
FEATURES
• Extends FEX connectivity into blade chassis
• Cisco Nexus 5500/6000 Switch is a single management point for
all the blade chassis I/O modules
• End-to-end FCoE support
BENEFITS:
• 50% decrease in blade chassis I/O modules
• 66% decrease in blade management points
• Blade & rack networking consistency
• Increased network resiliency
Cisco Nexus B22
IBM

Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extender
Cisco Nexus Parent Switch
+
Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender
Virtual Modular System
=

Nexus 5500 Series
FEX parent switch upgrade
Nexus 5500 + Nexus 2000
 Enhances POD with Layer 3 Intelligence
 Enables Cisco Fabric Path
 50% Reduction in Latency
 40G Ready (future)
 Scales to 1,000 hosts and 4K VLANs
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FEX details
Key Feature Cutlass
Number of Ports 14 Internal server ports
8 External FET or SFP+ ports
Speed 1/10Gb internally; 10 Gb externally
Chassis management through I2C only; switch
management through upstream Top of Rack Switch
No CLI
No Configuration
No Ethernet NIC
Minimal CMM interaction
No apparent FSM interaction
No SNMP or MIB support (though Director and FSM
can interrogate CMM and upstream switch through
standard Nexus supported interfaces)
Max Computed Power 65.05w

Part Number information
The part number for the B22 Fabric Extender includes the following items:
• One Cisco Nexus B22 Fabric Extender
• Sixteen Cisco Fabric Extender Transceivers (Cisco part number FET-10G included only in 94Y5355)
• Important Notices Flyer
• Technical Update Flyer
• Warranty Flyer
• CRU/FRU Flyer
• Documentation CD-ROM
Note: Cisco Nexus B22 Fabric Extender, part number 94Y5350, comes without SFP or SFP+ (small form-factor
pluggable plus) transceivers or cables. They must be ordered separately.
Sold Exclusively by
IBM and its Partners

Fabric Extender Connectivity Options
 Direct Attached Copper (Twinax)
 Fabric Extender Transceiver (FET)
Fabric Extender Transceiver (FET)
• Cost-effective N5K->N2K interconnect
• SFP+ form-factor
• Reach of 100M (OM3 fiber)
• Incompatible with SR optics
• Used for N2K interconnect only
• Low power & latency
 Single Reach (SR)
 Long Reach (LR)

Supported Adapters
* The Embedded 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter is included in models of the x240 with model numbers of the form x2x.

Connecting to Cisco network - Customer already owns Nexus ToR
• Integrated Virtual Fabric and FCoE on compute node
• Cisco FEX in chassis - unmanaged
• Connects to existing or new Cisco network.
LOM or CN4054
(pNIC, vNIC mode)
V7000
B22 Cisco FEX
Key value:
Black line is FCOE
Red line is Fibre Channel
Yellow line is Ethernet
Cisco
SAN
Nexus7K
Nexus 55XX
Nexus 55XX
Adapter Integrated Switch FCoE Top Of Rack Switch SAN Switch Storage Target OS levels
LOM & CN4054 4-port adapter
(BE3) pNIC and vNIC modes
B22 Cisco FEX Nexus 5548 / 5596 Cisco SAN FC: V7000, SVC, DSXXX Win2008 R2SP1, ESX 5.0 U1,
RHEL 6.3

FEX Parent - Cisco Nexus 5548UP & 5596UP
Mgmt 0, Console,
USB
Expansion Module
• 16p Unified Ports
• Fixed Unified Ports
• Line Rate
• 1/10GE & FCoE
• 8/4/2/1 Native FC
Redundant Fan
Modules
Redundant 750W AC
Power Supplies
Back of the Switch
Front to Back Airflow
Front of the
Switch

FEX Parent - Nexus 6004 Chassis
12 QSFP ports
48 Fixed QSFP Interfaces Expansion Module
4RU
30”

FEX cable support plan – IBM cables

FEX cable support plan – Cisco cables

IBM and Cisco: How to design a state-of-the art data center and
networking infrastructure combining Cisco and IBM solutions
 IBM and Cisco Building Blocks for the Data Center
 Physical Access Layer Evolution
 Cisco Virtual Networking Solutions
 Convergence of LAN and SAN
 DCN Management and Automation
 SDN and Cisco ONE
 Reference Designs for Small, Medium and Large
DCs
Link to Redbook:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg248105.html?Open
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• Hardware
Q3CY14
‒ 48-port 16G FC fixed fabric switch
‒ 1RU with field replaceable redundant power supplies and fans, with B2F air flow
‒ 10/100/1000 Ethernet, USB, and serial console for management access
‒ Base configuration of 12, 24, or 48 active ports
• Software
‒ NX-OS SAN 7.x release
• Licenses
‒ 12-port port upgrade license

5.2(8a)
MDS Scope: Bug fixes
Scope: Bug fixes
6.2(1)
Scope: MDS-9710
* Not engineering committed
6.2(9)
Scope: 16G
1RU, FC Scale,
9710 CTS
Scope: Bug fixes
6.2(5)
Scope: MDS
9250i,
Pathtrace
5.2(8b)
6.2(3)
Scope: bug fix release, plus
FCR, CLI
Helsinki*
Scope: 9706,
OnePK, TBD
6.2(7)
Scope: FCoE on
9710, FC Scale,
16G FEC
Q1 CY13 Q2 CY13
6.2(2)
Q3 CY13 Q4 CY13 Q1 CY14 Q2 CY14 Q3 CY14 Q4CY14
FCoE: F2-NG (N7710/N7718)
5.2(8c)
6.2(6)
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