Cisco FI 6248 to a 2960

[reveltechnology1]

Any issues or supportability problems connecting a Cisco UCS FI to a 2960 upstream switch?

This will be connected using channeled gig ports with multiple vlans.

Thanks!

[Robert Burns]

Other than possible congestion - no.  You'll need to configure the ethernet uplinks as 1GB on the FI's, but it will work.  Just watch oversubcription since you're running all 10G from UCS southward.  If this is for a lab I would say fine, but if you're looking for production you'll likely want a 10G switch northbound to UCS.  Any traffic between blades that needs to reach between FI-A and FI-B will traverse the northbound switch, which can easily be a bottleneck at 1G speeds.

Regards,

Robert

[adrian.steyn]

Unless you have a completely flat UCS environment where none of the servers in different vlans talk to one another, youre going to need inter-vlan routing.

How far UP are you planning to do your routing?

Then not only do you have to plan the oversubscription to the 2960's but also anywhere youd be going to get your inter-vlan routing to take place