In a small environment, is it viable to connect server farm directly to Nexus 7700 switches for LAN/SAN connectivity instead of adding Nexus 5500 switches between the servers and Nexus 7706 switches. Not sure if 7700 can support FCoE instead of Native Fiber Channel or iSCSI.
I have a customer looking to refresh his network and we are going to propose Collapsed Core. Dual 7706 will act as Core/Data Center and for the seven IDFs, I am going to go with Cisco Catalyst Series either 3650 or 3850.
I will connect each IDF switch to (2) 7706 with vPC. VPC peer link will be established between (2) 7706.
Thanks,