Dell Compellent SC8000 SAN Connectivity with CISCO UCS Blade chassis

[j.siddiqui]

Hi,

I need to know what is the best practice while connecting Dell Compellent SC8000 with CISCO UCS chassis. below is the scenerio.

Equipment:

1) 1x Cisco UCS blade chassis 

2) 2x FEX IOM with 8 ports

3) 2x Fabric Interconnect switches

4) 2x Cisco Nexus 5548UP switches

5) Dell Compellent SC8000 SAN (4x FC Ports and 4x 10G ports per controller)

There are two questions regarding connectivity:

1: where should I connect the SAN in the infrastructure either on Fabric Interconnects or on Cisco NEXUS 5548UP?

2: whether or not i can utilize all 8G FC and 10G FCoE ports together to get the max. bandwidth?

Thanks

[carlvarg]

Answer:

1. If you have Nexus is better to use it than Fabric Interconnect. Then Nexus will manage Zonning.
2. You can use both FC or FCoE but just be sure that use correct paths from VSANs and if necessary San Port channel can be used.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/servers-unified-computing/ucs-infrastructure-ucs-manager-software/116082-config-ucs-das-00.html