01-24-2014 10:28 AM
We are planning to buy new top of the rack spine switches. We are now running with 5596 , and were hoping to buy 6001 or 6004.
Our existing 5596 connects to a brocade switch as an NP uplink. We arent running FCOE , but our server's CNA ports are connected to 5596 on a "fabric" port which then goes thro upstream NPV uplink for FLOGI.
I was reading through the datasheets of 6001 & 6004 and both seem to support NPV for FCOE, but not for general fabric traffic ? Is that true ? When do you think that this feature will be available on 6000 platforms ?
Raj
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01-28-2014 12:06 PM
Hi Raj,
No 6000 is not a direct replacement of 5K. 6K was more taregted towards 40G and FCOE deployment with integrated Line-rate L3.
5672/56128 is an addition to 5500 10G family with 40G native flows, Fc/FCOE, Integrated L3 and more 10G port density.
Now after the 5672/56128, N6K is more for a 40G backbone or aggregation requirement. I would do 6K at the aggregation layer with TOR 5500/5600 and 40G QSFP+ uplinks.
Hope this helps, as always :-)
-amit singh
01-24-2014 01:46 PM
Hi Rajagopal,
The current generation 6001 does not support native FC. 6004 will have some UP (unified ports FC/FCOE/10G/1G) port modules soon. Please expect this towards the second half of this year.
Please read this :
Stay tuned next week for more announcement :-)
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
-amit singh
01-27-2014 08:13 AM
Amit
Thanks so much, as always..
So, the 6000 series is not a direct replacement for the N5Ks ? Is 5672/56128 more a direct replacement for 5596 ?
Why was 6000 positioned then ? more for fcoe implementations ?
Raj
01-28-2014 12:06 PM
Hi Raj,
No 6000 is not a direct replacement of 5K. 6K was more taregted towards 40G and FCOE deployment with integrated Line-rate L3.
5672/56128 is an addition to 5500 10G family with 40G native flows, Fc/FCOE, Integrated L3 and more 10G port density.
Now after the 5672/56128, N6K is more for a 40G backbone or aggregation requirement. I would do 6K at the aggregation layer with TOR 5500/5600 and 40G QSFP+ uplinks.
Hope this helps, as always :-)
-amit singh
01-29-2014 01:36 PM
This surely helps, as always
Have a great week ahead.
Raj
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