Connecting SAN directly to Nexus 6k

[Matt_Rogerson]

Hi,

I've been tasked with connecting an IBM V7000 directly to our Nexus 6k, with the 6k now acting as the SAN switch.  I'm no SAN person, but from what I understand, I need to create FC ports to the SAN, and FCoE ports to the servers - is this correct?  If anyone has had any experience with this kind of set-up, any advice would be gratefully received.

Thanks.

[Walter Dey]

Hi Matt

The Nexus 6004 has a expansion module, which supports native FC as well as FCoE.

N6004X-M20UP
Nexus 6004EF Chassis Module 20P 10GE Eth/FCoE OR 8/4/2G FC

The interop matrix

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/mds9000/interoperability/matrix/intmatrx/Matrix1.html

shows SVC and IBM Storwize 7000 support.

Nevertheless I would check the IBM interop matrix

IBM—visit http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/ssic/interoperability.wss

Walter.

PS. I did many implementations with Nexus 5k as a storage switch, or hybrid Ethernet and native FC.