Nexus 7700 Connectivity

[abbasali5]

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,

[marco.merlo]

Hi,

did you give a look at F3 module specifications?

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/nexus-7000-series-switches/datasheet-c78-730273.html

Regards

M