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Brass Tacks · January 28, 2013

A new EMC FCoE “Case Studies” TechBook revision is available!

Originally posted January 28, 2013 at 09:23 AM on brasstacksblog.typepad.com/brass-tacks/2013/01/a-new-emc-fcoe-case-studies-techbook-revision-is-available.html

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A new version of the “Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Data Center Bridging (DCB) Case Studies” TechBook is available.  This version introduces a new Juniper QFX3500 case study as well as a few updates (bug fixes) to the existing case studies.  The complete list of configurations described in the TechBook is:

  • Brocade 8000 - Direct Connect
  • Brocade DCX (FCoE 10-24) Blade – Direct Connect
  • Cisco Nexus 5000 – Direct Connect
  • Cisco Nexus 7000, 5000, MDS – Multi-hop FCoE
  • Cisco Nexus 5000, 2232PP –  vPC Straight-through
  • Cisco Nexus 5000, 4001I – vPC Cross-connect
  • Cisco Nexus 5000 – Host vPC Direct Connect
  • Blade Server case studies:
    • UCS
    • IBM BladeCenter
    • HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric and Flex-10
  • Juniper QFX3500 – Gateway and Transit modes

We're currently working on two additional updates that we hope to release in late February.  I’ll provide more detail once we release them, but for now I’ll just say that we’ll be updating the Nexus 7k case study and the UCS case study will be expanded to include an EMC Storage direct connect topology.

Thanks for reading!

Comments (5)

  1. Hans-Christian Morgenstern · 01/29/2013 at 05:55 AM

    Any chance we will see an update for the Brocade VDX series?

  2. Erik · 01/29/2013 at 05:20 PM

    Hi Hans-Christian, I just confirmed with one of my colleagues that we will be adding a VCS case study to the TechBook and will hopefully have it in there for March 1st.

  3. Hans-Christian Morgenstern · 01/31/2013 at 08:13 AM

    Hi Erik,
    thanks for the update.
    Looking forward to the next release.

  4. Hans-Christian · 04/12/2013 at 07:55 PM

    Any update on the VDX release?
    Cheers!

  5. Erik · 04/17/2013 at 03:49 AM

    Hi Hans-Christian, I just received confirmation that we will release the VDX update shortly after May 1st. I'll be posting about it and provide more details at that time.

    Regards, Erik

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