Direct Attach NetApp - compatibility matrix?

cweinhold · ‎01-10-2011

NetApp's Interoperability Matrix Tool (IMT) does not show direct attach support yet with UCS 1.4(1i) for FC or FCoE.

Presumably it will be supported. Any idea how long that'll take?

-Craig

Manish Tandon · ‎01-11-2011

Craig

Yes, it is in progress and and *expected* on IMT end of Jan/early Feb 2011.

Thanks

--Manish

cweinhold · ‎01-11-2011

I assume something similar is true for the EMC Interoperability matrix (http://www.emc.com/products/interoperability) ?

Manish Tandon · ‎01-11-2011

Yes- though EMC is expected mid-Feb/March.

Thanks

--Manish

sebastian_senen · ‎02-17-2011

Hi,

I may be wrong, but as far as I could see there's no specific FC support for any B-Series on the published Netapp matrix... although is safe to assume that since there are many CVDs and Cisco/Netapp offer FlexPods, the infrastructure is supported with MDS.

Also there's no iSCSI support with the C Series (again, it's safe to assume that this works, right?)

Any advice/other place to verify Cisco/Netapp support?

Thanks and regards,

Sebastian.

Radek Kubka · ‎02-28-2011

Hi,

It is supported now, with a caveat about zoning though:

http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/adapters/CiscoUCS.pdf

"NetApp supports attaching FC and FCoE targets to the Cisco UCS 6100 Fabric Interconnect, but, at this time, strongly recommends that you use single initiator zoning with this configuration. [...] Because the Cisco UCS does not currently allow you to create and/or modify zoning data directly on a UCS 6100 Fabric Interconnect, you must use an upstream MDS or Nexus switch to configure zoning."

Regards,
Radek

Mauricio Martinez · ‎07-07-2011

Can this netapp document be posted? It needs a login in order to see it.

Thanks!