01-29-2010 12:19 PM
I have not seen anything about connecting Cisco Switch modules for Blade Chassis to fex. Does anybody now if you can do that?
thank you.
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02-01-2010 01:21 PM
No you can not and this not meant to be.
The N2K is a NIC card extender. You can not connect a switch, the FEX does not run spanning tree.
See this as a solution that makes cabling to your servers easier and provides an uplink of 40 GB
01-31-2010 06:27 PM
Only the Nexus 5000 series support the FEX right now.
Regards,
jerry
02-01-2010 01:21 PM
No you can not and this not meant to be.
The N2K is a NIC card extender. You can not connect a switch, the FEX does not run spanning tree.
See this as a solution that makes cabling to your servers easier and provides an uplink of 40 GB
02-03-2010 05:23 AM
thank you Lucien.
I think you got a right name for N2Ks, a NIC card extender. In my opion N2K should be able to support Blade switches. Not every company has just rack mount servers, most enviroment is mixed. In my case, I run out ports on N5K, but plenty available on N2K. I want add two more blade centers with gig switch modules in them. now I have to buy a N5K!!!. I'm sure Cisco can make N2K to support switches too.
02-03-2010 08:26 AM
If you are interested the Nexus for Blade Server, there is Nexus 4000 available for IBM Blade Server.
Regards,
jerry
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