Cabling; Fibre Channel Switches; Fcoe Switches - Qlogic Storage Networking (Unified Fabric Pilot Installation Manual

Cabling

To connect the Fibre Channel and Ethernet cables:
1. Connect the Fibre Channel cables from the servers to the Cisco FCoE
Nexus switch.
2. Connect the Fibre Channel cables from the storage to the Cisco FCoE
Nexus switch.
3. Connect any necessary Ethernet cables for device management and iSCSI
storage.

Fibre Channel Switches

If you are connecting Fibre Channel devices, such as storage, through a Fibre
Channel switch, then you must connect the Fibre Channel switch to a Fibre
Channel port on the FCoE switch.
In addition, set up a zoning configuration so that the servers can discover the disk
LUNs you are mapping. Refer to the Fibre Channel switch documentation for
zoning instructions.

FCoE Switches

QLogic and Cisco have jointly developed the QLogic and Cisco FCoE Design
Guide for implementing a unified data center using Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
switches and QLogic second-generation Converged Network Adapters. Refer to
the design guide for detailed instructions on how to implement an FCoE network
and configure the Cisco Nexus switch and QLogic adapters (Cisco and QLogic,
2010). The design guide also describes how to configure N_Port ID Virtualization
(NPIV) to resolve fabric expansion concerns related to domain IDs. The QLogic
and Cisco FCoE Design Guide does not describe the configuration of the PFC
and ETS DCB parameters, which will be required for the tests described in this
document.
For information about configuring DCB on a Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch, see
"Configuring DCB on a Nexus Switch" on page
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