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Figure 7. The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Can Be Deployed as a Top-of-Rack, Access-Layer Switch in Parallel with Existing Fibre
Channel SANs
Consolidated Gigabit Ethernet Top-of-Rack Access-Layer System
One deployment scenario involves equipping each data center rack with two Cisco Nexus 2148T Gigabit Ethernet
Fabric Extenders connected to two upstream Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches (Figure 8). Up to 48 servers can
connect to each fabric extender. Assuming that these servers are dual-homed, a pair of Cisco Nexus 5020 Switches
can connect up to 576 servers (12 fabric extenders).