Ask the Expert: Cisco Nexus 5000, 6000 and Fibre Channel over Ethernet Important Caveats and Best Pr...

ciscomoderator · ‎11-06-2013

With Vinayak Sudame

Welcome to the Cisco Support Community Ask the Expert conversation. This is an opportunity to learn and ask questions about Cisco Nexus 5000, 6000 and Fibre Channel over Ethernet with Cisco expert Vinayak Sudame. He can cover questions about important caveats and best practices. Vinayak can also cover questions about best practices in dealing with Technical Assistance Center (TAC).

This is a continuation of the live webcast.

Vinayak Sudame is a Technical Lead in Data Center Switching Support Team within Cisco's Technical Services in RTP, North Carolina. His current responsibilities include but are not limited to Troubleshooting Technical support problems and Escalations in the areas of Nexus 5000, Nexus 2000, FCoE. Vinayak is also involved in developing technical content for Cisco Internal as well as external. eg, Nexus 5000 Troubleshooting Guide (CCO), Nexus 5000 portal (partners), etc. This involves cross team collaboration and working with multiple different teams within Cisco. Vinayak has also contributed to training account teams and partners in CAE (Customer Assurance Engineering) bootcamp dealing with Nexus 5000 technologies. In the past, Vinayak's responsibilities included supporting MDS platform (Fiber Channel Technologies) and work with EMC support on Escalated MDS cases. Vinayak was the Subject Matter Expert for Santap Technologies before moving to Nexus 5000 support. Vinayak has a Masters in Electrical Engineering with Specialization in Networking from Wichita State University, Kansas and is a CCIE # 20672 in Routing and Switching.

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Sarah Staker · ‎11-14-2013

Hello Vinayak,

Could you please share or advise where I can find some basic documents to start with FCoE?

Thank you,

Sarah

vdsudame · ‎11-14-2013

Hi Sarah

Here are some of the good references which can be used as starting point for FCoE.

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) <=== check the white papers and case studies

http://www.cisco.com/go/fcoe

IEEE 802.1 Data Center Bridging – White Papers
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns783/index.html
http://www.fcoe.com

FC-BB-5 Standard

http://www.fcoe.com/09-056v5.pdf

“I/O Consolidation in the Data Center” by Silvano Gai, Claudio DeSanti
http://www.ciscopress.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=158705888X

Cisco Nexus 5000 Series NX-OS Fibre Channel over Ethernet Configuration Guide

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus5000/sw/fcoe/b_Cisco_Nexus_5000_Series_NX-OS_Fibre_Channel_over_Ethernet_Configuration_Guide_.html

Troubleshooting FCoE:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus5000/sw/troubleshooting/guide/n5K_ts_fcoe.html

Hope this helps.

Vinayak

jmtiamson · ‎11-23-2013

Hi Vinayak:

Good day

We have N7018/7010 and N5K/N2K

Can you guide me on where i can find troubleshooting guide for these platforms?

Thanks in advance

Regards,

Juls

vdsudame · ‎11-26-2013

Hello

you can check here...

Nexus 7k troubleshooting guide

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9402/prod_troubleshooting_guides_list.html

Nexus 5k/2k troubleshooting guide

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus5000/sw/troubleshooting/guide/N5K_Troubleshooting_Guide.html

Thanks, Vinayak

cdall1979 · ‎11-20-2013

Vinayak,

I was wondering if you could briefly discuss some of the enhancements/caveats in regards to the whole FC vs FCoE camps. My understanding is that with the advancements in DCB and Ethernet technology, along with the "lossless ethernet fabric", FC will quickly run out of steam over the next few years. And now with the move to 40GbE this should occur rather quickly. What are your thoughts?

vdsudame · ‎11-22-2013

This is a really broad question and the response should not be generalized.

There are still a lot of deployments which use FC and FCoE. Also our new Data Center Switches like nexus 6k, 7k are supporting a mixture of FC and FCoE. So even thought it might look like FC or FCoE might not stay longer they will still stay in the market for sure for few more years atleast.

Thanks, Vinayak.

ciscomoderator · ‎11-20-2013

This question was posted by member Patrick Jay Tugano in the slide document section. Transferred to this discussion forum.

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Hi Vinayak

Good day, can I ask if what are the latest models for cisco nexus in 2013? Also can you help me and share, which are the best cisco managed gigabit switch that have a compatibility for Virtualization.

Yediael Christian · ‎11-22-2013

Hi ciscomoderator,

Can i also ask about Nexus 7000? if i can't, then can you show me the relevant "ask the expert" to me?

thanks.

best regards,

Yedi

Ask the Expert: Cisco Nexus 5000, 6000 and Fibre Channel over Ethernet Important Caveats and Best Practices