Datasheet

IBM Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch 23
Table 9. CN4093 as an NPV Gateway connected to the Cisco MDS SAN (Figure 8)
Diagram
reference
Description Part
number
Quantity
IBM Flex System FCoE solution
IBM Flex System x240 Compute Node or other supported server Varies Varies
IBM Flex System CN4054 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter 90Y3554 1 per server
IBM Flex System CN4054 Virtual Fabric Adapter Upgrade 90Y3558 1 per VFA
IBM Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch 00D5823 2
IBM Flex System Fabric CN4093 Converged Scalable Switch
(Upgrade 1)
00D5845 1 per CN4093
IBM RackSwitch G8264
Cisco MDS SAN fabric
IBM System Storage FC disk controllers
IBM System Storage DS3000 / DS5000
IBM System Storage DS8000
IBM Storwize V7000 / SAN Volume Controller
IBM XIV
Note: You also need SFP+ modules and optical cables or SFP+ DACs (not shown in Table 8 and Table 9;
see Table 3 for details) for the external 10 Gb Ethernet connectivity, and SW 8 Gb FC SFP+ transceivers
and optical cables (also identified in Table 3) for the external Fibre Channel connectivity.
IBM provides extensive FCoE testing to deliver network interoperability. For a full listing of IBM supported
FCoE and iSCSI configurations, see the System Storage Interoperation Center (SSIC) website at:
http://ibm.com/systems/support/storage/ssic