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HS23
7875-XXX
IBM 10Gb Virtual Fabric
Switch (46C7191) + Qlogic
Extension Module
(46M6172)
External FCoE
Switch
Storage
FC Switches
Cisco or
Brocade SAN
Storwize V7000
DS3K/DS5K
In Blade StorageFC SwitchesIn Chassis
1. IBM solution
2. Switch Independent Solution
Date
Available
now!
Date
BladeCenter FCoE HS23 Solutions
Available
Now
Brocade Converged
(69Y1909)
Nexus 4001
(46M6071 )
Cisco SAN DS3K / 5K
Storewize v7000
Nexus 5K
HS23
7875-XXX
External FCoE
Switch
In ChassisIn Blade
Available
Now
HS23
7875-XXX
A.
B.
C.
Brocade SAN Storwize V7000
DS3K/DS5K
Notes:
1) Supported modes: (a) IBM solution: pNIC (DS3K & DS5K only) and vNIC1 (V7000, DS3K & DS5K), (b) Switch Independent: pNIC and vNIC2 (all targets)
2) Supported OS: SLES 11 SP2, RHEL 6.2, VMWare ESXi 5.0, Win 2008 R2
3) For a complete list of supported configs, please refer to the BladeCenter Interoperability Guide (LINK)
4) Boot from SAN supported on all configs above
5) The configs above are based on HS23 LOM,; a separate CFFh Virtual Fabric adapter will be available in late 2Q12 for additional I/O ports with FCoE
Legend:
Blue, FCoE packets
Green, FC packets