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Dell Networking S5000: Deployment of a Converged Infrastructure with FCoE
Figure 48: Dell S5000 acting as a NPIV Gateway and allowing for a converged infrastructure
As you can see, a Dell PowerEdge R720 server with a two port CNA is used to connect to two Dell
S5000 switches which are then each connected to a FC switch. The FC switches are connected to the
Dell PowerVault MD3660f storage array. Observe how the backend SAN network has not been
modified at all; the connections from the FC switches to the Dell PowerVault MD3660f storage array
have not been modified. Note, each S5000 switch is connecting to a different fabric to provide fabric-
level redundancy. Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise is installed on the server.
It's important to note that as long as the appropriate drivers for both FC and Ethernet are installed, the
operating system can see two CNA ports as multiple Ethernet ports and FC HBA ports if NIC
partitioning (NPAR) is employed.
Figure 49: Windows view in Device Manager of one Dell QLogic QLE8262 CNA with NPAR and FCoE enabled
As in the traditional non-converged setup, the LAN side will be the usual setup with 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.
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