First, if your interested in the new Cisco UCS blade system and haven’t checked out the Varrow channel on YouTube lately, you should. We’ve added several new videos from a customer while doing their UCS install. Pretty neat stuff.
Just finished up another video for our collection. This one walks you through configuring Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) on a Cisco Nexus 5020 switch. As you’ll hear me say several times in the video it’s not hard, especially if you know how to configure a Cisco MDS switch. It’s very, very similar with just a few new steps on the front-end of the configuration. In the demo I take a vSphere server with Emulex CNAs and connect it to an EMC CLARiiON array via FCoE over the Nexus 5020.
If there is anything that you’d like to see demonstrated on a video just let us know and we’ll do our best.
Hi Jason,
thx for that video. At the end you ask if there something else we want to see.
Yes. But not with FCoE or nexus 5020.
I think there are a lot of people who use the nexus 1000v in vSphere and want to know, better to see on a video, how you can migrate fully to the nexus 1000v (Service Console, VMKernel,iSCSI,….) without a vSwitch.
A best practice would be fine.
Thanks a lot.
best regards
Hanky
Great information in your blogs.
I’m trying to figure out the best way to configure 1000v to two 5000’s. Right now the 1000v is connecting via VPC-HM… I prefer to run VPC on the 5K’s instead. Ethernet part is easy, but my SAN knowledge is minimal, so I’m unsure of how to configure the FCOE on the 5000.
Currently running npv mode. On each 5K, I have bound the vfc to the ethernet port. On 5K-1 I use VLAN 100 and on 5K-2, I use VLAN 200 (not sure this is correct, but it’s working). Couple questions:
1) when using VPC-HM mode should I use different VLANs for the VSAN mapping on each 5k?
2) if I switch over to vpc on the 5K, the vpc won’t come up unless I have the same trunked VLANs on each 5K… can I use the same VLAN (VSAN mapping) on both 5Ks?
Thanks