07-03-2012 03:40 PM
Hi,
Our customer is willing to buy a N5K-C5596UP-FA and wants to know if he can use the Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57711 NIC for Fiber channel.
Any help is much appreciated?
07-03-2012 04:40 PM
Hi Santiago,
The Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57711 appears to be ethernet only (
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10493/1CS57711-TB100-D5.pdf). It can do 10Gig Ethernet and iSCSI offloading.
They would need to purchase a FC HBA or CNA card depending on the design of the infrastructure to do Fiber Channel.
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