FCoE/CNA Deployment w/ Nexus 5K, HP 580s, QLogic

Wed Mar 7 04:58:36 UTC 2012

Thanks for posting this.  We are planning a similar design, and we've purchased QLogic adapters.

Has anyone tried something like this with an Emulex CNA?

http://www.emulex.com/products/oneconnect-ucnas/10gbe-fcoe-cnas/emulex-branded/oce11102-f/overview.html

John

-----Original Message-----
From: David Swafford [mailto:david at davidswafford.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 7:19 PM
To: David Newman; Nanog
Subject: Re: FCoE/CNA Deployment w/ Nexus 5K, HP 580s, QLogic

The full SKU of the original cards was QLE8242-CU-CK (dual port copper).
 The replacements were the same, but SR instead of CU.  Here's a quick link of detail on these cards -- http://www.qlogic.com/Resources/Documents/DataSheets/Adapters/Datasheet_8200_Series_Adapters.pdf
.

The copper cables/SFPs were Cisco's SFP-H10GB-CU5M and SFP-H10GB-CU3M, which are listed on QLogic's list of approved cables:
http://www.qlogic.com/Resources/Documents/LineCards/Copper_Cables_Support_Matrix_Line_Card.pdf
.

I had a comment regarding the TCO of a Nexus 5548 w/ full SR SFPs vs.
copper  and yes, this is a significant cost increase, so be aware of that!
 Hopefully you're not paying retail for them :-), even w/ our discount it was substantial.

David.

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:38 PM, David Newman <dnewman at networktest.com>wrote:

> On 2/28/12 2:55 AM, David Swafford wrote:
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> > Yeah, our vendors epically failed here!
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> Were these QLogic 2400s or 2500s by any chance?
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> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F15/FEDORA-2012-1863
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> dn
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