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12-12-2012 03:01 AM
12-12-2012 03:01 AM
interoperability between cisco and brocade switch
I am having a brocade silkworm 16 port switch and one cisco MDS 9000 switch. I want to know the possiblity of ISL between these two switches.
Please suggest.
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12-12-2012 07:33 AM
12-12-2012 07:33 AM
Re: interoperability between cisco and brocade switch
Don't know myself, but the May 2012 SAN Design Guide states "An interoperable, heterogeneous switch fabric can contain different series of switches." For a combination of C-series and B-series, Go to http://www.hp.com/go/SDGManuals, see "Fabric Interoperability: Merging Fabrics Based on C-series and B-series Fibre Channel Switches Application Notes"
Note: While I am an HPE Employee, all of my comments (whether noted or not), are my own and are not any official representation of the company
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01-17-2013 11:15 AM
01-17-2013 11:15 AM
Re: interoperability between cisco and brocade switch
It is possible... but I would do everthing I could to just move the connections from the brocade to the cisco... Even if you don't have the ports availabe, it's a better choice to add line-cards and sfp's, etc. than going to interop mode... You dumb everything down to the lowest common denominator...
Move them to the CISCO at all costs... IMO...
If you have a blade rack with an onboard Brocade switch and your connecting to CISCO MDS, change out the blade switch to CISCO, possibly one side at a time... Or consider moving toward CNA's (converged network adapters) which is the future anyway...
Here's a link... note: I have CISCO partner access, so it may not be availabe to everyone, then just google CNA CISCO i guess...
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10493/data_sheet_c78-623738.html