, December 13, 2011 11:10 PM
To: cisco-nsp
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Nexus and HP Flexfabric
Actually, I mis-spoke on the HP Flexfabric question.
I've been asked to consider the HP Flexfabric product OR the
integrated Cisco Nexus 2K within an HP Blade serverIf anyone has
deployed either
Actually, FCoE is Single-Hop by standart.
Nonsense, the standards have been done for years. What constitutes
a FC hop is an ISL (FCF VE_Port to FCF VE_Port)... and yes that is
standardized for FCoE. See FC-BB-5.
Also if you already have non-Cisco FC Fabric, using Cisco Extenders
should be
Any experience on the operations side of things for the B22HP route?
More specifically, feedback on how TAC (HP and Cisco) would look, day
to day provisioning (risk to reloading an B22HP to the rest of the HP
Blade?)...etc
Support (functionality, troubleshooting) for the fabric extender is
Do you know what the limit to vlans on flexfabric is?
It depends on the software version, which may be why you see different
values different places.
The maximum in a FlexFabric module is 320 VLANs with VC 3.18. There
are other limits as to the number of VLANs in the VC domain, but that
is an
Well, If you carefully read FC-BB-5 ver. 1.03, you may see that each Enode
should be connected to Fibre Channel Forwarder. That is what I mean.
Only FIP version 1 should remove this limitation.
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Asbjorn Hojmark - Lists
li...@hojmark.orgwrote:
Do you know what
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:25:10 +0200, you wrote:
Well, If you carefully read FC-BB-5 ver. 1.03, you may see that each
Enode should be connected to Fibre Channel Forwarder. That is what I
mean.
Yeah, that's exactly what you get with multi-hop FCoE from Cisco (N5K
- N5K or N5K - N7K). So yes,
Of Pablo Espinosa
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 11:10 PM
To: cisco-nsp
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Nexus and HP Flexfabric
Actually, I mis-spoke on the HP Flexfabric question.
I've been asked to consider the HP Flexfabric product OR the
integrated Cisco Nexus 2K within an HP Blade server
PM
To: cisco-nsp
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Nexus and HP Flexfabric
Actually, I mis-spoke on the HP Flexfabric question.
I've been asked to consider the HP Flexfabric product OR the
integrated Cisco Nexus 2K within an HP Blade serverIf anyone has
deployed either solution, I would love some
...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Asbjorn Hojmark - Lists
Sent: Friday, 16 December 2011 10:42 AM
To: 'Pablo Espinosa'
Cc: 'cisco-nsp'
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Nexus and HP Flexfabric
We have customers running the Nexus B22HP (Cisco/HP FEX) and it works pretty
well.
Flex-Whatever sucks. Bowling balls through
Hey all - Looking for some un-biased feedback; and I will get it here. :)
As an alternative to a ToR design within our data center, I've been
asked to consider the HP Flexfabric product with an integrated Cisco
Nexus 2K built into it. I'm not a fan of converged infrastructure as
this, but the
Actually, I mis-spoke on the HP Flexfabric question.
I've been asked to consider the HP Flexfabric product OR the
integrated Cisco Nexus 2K within an HP Blade serverIf anyone has
deployed either solution, I would love some feedback
thanks
p-
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Pablo Espinosa
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