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Dell EMC Networking FCoE Deployment with S4148U-ON in NPG Mode

Summary: In a leaf-spine data center environment, two Dell EMC PowerSwitch S4148U-ON switches running OS10 Enterprise Edition (OS10EE) may be used as a leaf pair with Ethernet ports connected to spine switches for production TCP/IP traffic. The same leaf pair is utilized in NPG mode for connections to Fibre Channel (FC) switches servicing FC storage. This guide covers configuration of the Fibre Channel/Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FC/FCoE) portion of the network. The configuration includes two S4148U-ON switches, PowerEdge server FCoE converged network adapters (CNAs), VMware ESXi hosts, and a Unity 500F storage array. The goal of this guide is to enable a network administrator or deployment services engineer to deploy a pair of S4148U-ON switches in an FC environment using the hardware and software described. ...

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Published May 2019

In a leaf-spine data center environment, two Dell EMC PowerSwitch S4148U-ON switches running OS10 Enterprise Edition (OS10EE) may be used as a leaf pair with Ethernet ports connected to spine switches for production TCP/IP traffic. The same leaf pair is utilized in NPG mode for connections to Fibre Channel (FC) switches servicing FC storage.

This guide covers configuration of the Fibre Channel/Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FC/FCoE) portion of the network. The configuration includes two S4148U-ON switches, PowerEdge server FCoE converged network adapters (CNAs), VMware ESXi hosts, and a Unity 500F storage array. The goal of this guide is to enable a network administrator or deployment services engineer to deploy a pair of S4148U-ON switches in an FC environment using the hardware and software described.

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