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Dell Networking S5000: Deployment of a Converged Infrastructure with FCoE
As in the traditional non-converged setup, the LAN side will be the usual setup with either an
active/standby configuration up to separate ToR Dell S5000 switches which have VLT employed up to
the core Z9000 switches. The difference here is that the Ethernet ports connecting up to the ToR are
virtual ports.
The Dell PowerEdge R720 server has its virtual Ethernet NICs configured via NIC teaming and
connecting to two separate Dell S5000 switches. The virtual HBA ports are connecting to the same
Dell S5000 switches but are logically separated from the Ethernet NICs and the NIC teaming
configuration is not taken into account.
Figure 21: Logical view of how operating system sees CNA with NPAR and FCoE enabled
Since we are using a Dell QLogic QLE8262 CNA, the first thing we need to do is configure it for FCoE.
Note, since we NIC team with 'Failsafe Team', no configuration is required on the S5000 switches and
the switches are not aware of the NIC team. One member of the team is active while the other is
standby. See the "Dell QLogic QLE8262" section in section D: "FCoE CNA adapter configuration
specifics" for details of the configuration.
As no change is required on the backend LAN/SAN networks except for some zoning/access controls,
the main task in the new topology is the configuration of the Dell S5000 switches for both fabric A and
fabric B. This configuration is shown below in Figure 22 and Figure 23.
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