FCoE/CNA Deployment w/ Nexus 5K, HP 580s, QLogic

[david at davidswafford.com (David Swafford)]

The full SKU of the original cards was QLE8242-CU-CK (dual port copper).
 The replacements were the same, but SR instead of CU.  Here's a quick link
of detail on these cards --
http://www.qlogic.com/Resources/Documents/DataSheets/Adapters/Datasheet_8200_Series_Adapters.pdf
.

The copper cables/SFPs were Cisco's SFP-H10GB-CU5M and SFP-H10GB-CU3M,
which are listed on QLogic's list of approved cables:
http://www.qlogic.com/Resources/Documents/LineCards/Copper_Cables_Support_Matrix_Line_Card.pdf
.

I had a comment regarding the TCO of a Nexus 5548 w/ full SR SFPs vs.
copper  and yes, this is a significant cost increase, so be aware of that!
 Hopefully you're not paying retail for them :-), even w/ our discount it
was substantial.

David.



On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:38 PM, David Newman <dnewman at networktest.com>wrote:

> On 2/28/12 2:55 AM, David Swafford wrote:
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> > Yeah, our vendors epically failed here!
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> Were these QLogic 2400s or 2500s by any chance?
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> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F15/FEDORA-2012-1863
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