Cisco UCS Blade Deployment Without N5K or N7K ?

[Bikash Bhattarai]

Dear all,

Is it possbile to deploy cisco UCS blade solution with only Blade Chassis, FI, FEX/IOM and using third party SAN and LAN switch ?

Thanks

[Walter Dey]

Yes of course !

There are many installations with e.g. Brocade FC switches

The only caveat I see: are your uplink ethernet switches 1G or 10G; technically either one will work, however, with 1 G Northbound connectivity, some data flows are limited in bandwidth. see below