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Deploying Dell Networking MXL and PowerEdge I/O Aggregator in a Cisco Nexus Environment

Summary: This deployment guide covers configuring two Dell M1000e Blade server chassis I/O Modules (IOMs) in a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) single-hop topology with the Blade IOMs in FIP Snooping Bridge (FSB) mode. FSB capabilities allow the bridge (or the switch in this case) to snoop the packets coming across the ports, process the FCoE packets appropriately and send them to the intended Fiber Channel Forwarder (FCF). This is a very simple explanation of the process, as there are several things that occur such as installing Access Control lists (ACLs) that allow FCoE traffic that has logged in FLOGI ...

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Published November 2014

This deployment guide covers configuring two Dell M1000e Blade server chassis I/O Modules (IOMs) in a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) single-hop topology with the Blade IOMs in FIP Snooping Bridge (FSB) mode. FSB capabilities allow the bridge (or the switch in this case) to snoop the packets coming across the ports, process the FCoE packets appropriately and send them to the intended Fiber Channel Forwarder (FCF). This is a very simple explanation of the process, as there are several things that occur such as installing Access Control lists (ACLs) that allow FCoE traffic that has logged in (FLOGI’ed). While some of these more advanced topics will be touched on in this document, for the most part the document is purposefully kept at a high level.

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