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Brocade VCS Fabric technology into existing infrastructure, because it fully interoperates with existing LAN
protocols, services, and architectures.
The EN4023 can connect to the core and aggregations switches from Lenovo, Brocade, Cisco, Juniper, Arista,
and any vendor that utilizes industry standard connectivity, is shown in the figure above.
Multiple connection types
The EN4023 supports multiple connection types to the upstream SAN or Ethernet network storage controllers.
Some of these are shown in the following figure. The EN4023 supports direct connections to storage or can
connect through other switches or fabrics.
Figure 10. Sample of the connection types that are supported by the EN4023
Specifics about these supported configurations include:
Connecting to Brocade FCF (example VDX 6740) using the EN4023 as an FCoE Transit switch and
breaking out the FC at the Top-of-Rack switch
Connecting to Brocade SAN by utilizing Access Gateway (NPIV) mode on the EN4023
Utilizing Fibre Channel Routing (FCR) to connect to the upstream Brocade SAN via EX_Port
Direct-attach storage
NAS IP (Ethernet) Storage
iSCSI IP (Ethernet) Storage (Lenovo Storage S2200/3200 or IBM Storwize V3700/V5000/V7000)
FC storage (Lenovo Storage S2200/3200 or IBM Storwize V3700/V5000/V7000)
FCoE or FC storage (IBM Storwize V3700/V5000/V7000)
EN4023 in the VCS network
The following figure shows a sample scenario where the EN4023 is used as a part of the data center edge
network built with VCS technology.
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