B: Converged Network Solution - Dell Poweredge Server, Dell Powervault Storage Array, And Dell S5000 As Npiv Proxy Gateway - Dell S5000 Deployment/Configuration Manual

Dell Networking S5000: Deployment of a Converged Infrastructure with FCoE
B: Converged Network Solution - Dell PowerEdge Server, Dell
PowerVault storage array, and Dell S5000 as NPIV Proxy
Gateway
We will first demonstrate a non-converged setup and then add the Dell S5000 to the picture. This will
allow us to see how the connections and configuration change from a traditional non-converged
environment to a converged environment with the introduction of the Dell S5000 switch. You'll be
surprised how easy the setup is and how the backend LAN and SAN can remain untouched.
The traditional LAN/SAN non-converged setup example is shown below in Figure 36. As you can see, a
Dell PowerEdge R720 server with a two port FC HBA is used to connect to two FC switches which are
then connected to a Dell PowerVault MD3660f storage array. Each FC port on the server HBA is
connecting to a different fabric. Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise is installed on the server.
In the below setup, the LAN side will be the usual setup with either an active/standby or active/active
configuration up to separate ToR Dell S4810 switches which have VLT employed up to the core
Z9000 switches.
For the below diagram I'll focus in on the SAN configuration.
Figure 36: Traditional LAN/SAN non-converged network
There are two paths available from the server to the FC switches and four paths available from each FC
switch to the PowerVault storage array (four paths to each controller). The PowerVault storage array
comes with host software that is installed on the Windows server to enable multi-path input/output
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Deployment/Configuration Guide