How to ? --> Fabric migration services for Brocade/McData to CISCO connectivity .

[sushan.dutta1]

Hi All Distinguished Members ,

I am working on on Data Center Project on Storage Arrays , but recently i have received a Project for Fabric Services to be migrated from Brocade to Cisco .

1. Brocade to Cisco

2. McData to Cisco

I have never done this , so if anyone could please share the step by step to perform this activity or any document , It will be a great help.

Regards

Sushan Dutta

[Walter Dey]

Hi Sushan

see eg.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/storage-networking/mds-9700-series-multilayer-directors/white-paper-c11-732037.html

and

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/about/ciscoitatwork/downloads/ciscoitatwork/pdf/Cisco_IT_Case_Study_MDS-Interop_Print.pdf

Walter.

[xiazhen01]

hi,

  for migration , the important things is 

  1、the same domain id between the cisco and brocade. if it is port zone.need to recreate port

       zone at cisco according to brocade zone config.

  2、if it is wwwn zone, dont worry about domain id and  connecting device port(port index).

  3、if at brocade , has ever create virtual fabric, at the  cisco, need to create  vsan. and move to 

       interface to vsan (same interface  number between brocade VF and cisco VSAN ).

  4、transfer zone config file , need to reedit zone cofig  , from brocade to cisco .

       then  create zone and zoneset at the cisco.