Cisco AP775A - Nexus Converged Network Switch 5010 Configuration Manual page 55

Overview
Typical Deployment Topologies
In the example configuration, the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch has Ethernet uplinks to two Catalyst
switches. If STP is enabled in the data center LAN, the links to one of the switches will be STP active and
the links to the other switch will be STP blocked.
Figure 2: Ethernet TOR Switch Topology
All of the server-side ports on the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch are running standard Ethernet. FCoE is
not required, so the server ports are connected using 10-Gigabit Ethernet NICs.
The servers are connected to the data center SAN through MDS 9134 SAN switches. The server Fibre Channel
ports require standard Fibre Channel HBAs.
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