Cisco UCS mini interop with brocade 300 b

[rahulkatyal]

Hi Team,

i was facing an issue while integrating UCS mini with borcade 300b and later after reading the document found that it doesn't support FC end host mode. So i directly connected UCS mini FC ports with EMC storage and configured zoning on ucs only.

Now, cisco has released new UCSM version 3.0(2)c wherein it is mentioned that FC end host mode is supported. But, brocade switch is still showing unsupprted with mini.

please let me know if I can integrate brocade 300 B with ucs mini if i upgrade the firmware.

[Walter Dey]

Are you referring to

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/interoperability/matrix/m_hcl_B_rel3-02.pdf ?

and

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

I think FC End host mode should work without a problem with Brocade 300B, although this seems to be a rather old box.

You need to configure Brocade as NPIV, which they Access Gateway mode, which is a per port command, not global as for Cisco MDS and Nexus.

[rahulkatyal]

Walter, It worked after upgrading the UCS mini release to 3.0(2d). FC end host mode is supported in this release with NPIV enabled upstream switch.

Thanks..!!