Deployment Guide
Table Of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Hardware overview
- 3 Topology overview
- 4 Preparation
- 5 S4148U-ON switch configuration
- 6 S4148U-ON validation
- 7 Configure Unity FC storage
- 8 Configure storage on ESXi hosts
- 9 Configure ESXi hosts for LAN traffic
- A Validated components
- B Technical support and resources
- C Support and feedback
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3 Topology overview
Note: In this deployment guide, "LAN" is used to broadly refer to the data center's leaf-spine production
TCP/IP network, and "SAN" is used to refer to FCoE and FC storage networks.
A pair of S4148U-ONs is installed in a rack to forward converged LAN and SAN traffic for all devices in the
rack. Each S4148U-ON provides universal ports that are configured as either FC or Ethernet. The mix of FC
and Ethernet ports allows the switches to simultaneously connect directly to an FC SAN for storage traffic and
act as leafs in a leaf-spine network for LAN traffic.
Note: FC SAN traffic does not traverse the leaf-spine network and is contained within the rack.
The combined LAN/SAN topology is shown in the diagram below.
Rack 1
S4148U
-Leaf1 S4148U-Leaf2
Unity 500F
SP A
SP B
10GbE
R640-
1
FC SAN A (FC ports)
LAN (Eth. Ports, no FCoE traffic)
Converged LAN and FCoE SAN (Eth. ports)
VLTi (Eth. Ports, no FCoE traffic)
FC SAN B (FC ports)
10GbE
R640-2
Rack n
Leaf
Leaf
Z9100-Spine2
Z9100-Spine1
Combined LAN/SAN topology