Connecting FI pair to Different Datacenter Network Infrastructure/Switches

[dkjones21]

Is it possible to connect the same pair of Fabric Interconnects to two(2) different Datacenter Switches and restrict  a subset of our B-series blades to only use the new datacenter switches while the remaining blades would continue to use the current switches?  

We are upgrading our Datacenter network infrastructure which will include adding new datacenter/top of rack switches.   We want to phase our migration to the new switches as to prevent outages and allow verifying/modifying servers and services to use NSX.  I would like to connect 6 or our newer blade servers to the new network infrastructure while the remaining 14 blades would use the current infrastructure.  As the VMs on the blades moved off, those blades would then move to the new network infrastructure.

If this is possible, can someone point me to any configuration documentation / blogs / white papers showing how this can be achieved.

Thanks in advanced for any help

David K. Jones

System Specialist

dkjones@unm.edu

[Walter Dey]

Hi David

Do you mean Ethernet and/or Fibrechannel Switches ?

In either case, yes, this can be done, and has been discussed in this Forum.

Deploy Layer 2 Disjoint Networks Upstream in End Host Mode

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/data-center-virtualization/unified-computing/white_paper_c11-692008.html

Walter.