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Figure 40. Network Configuration with Upstream Cisco Nexus 5500 Series from the Cisco Unified Computing
System
The Cisco Nexus 5500 Series is used to connect to the NetApp FAS 3140/3170 storage system for NAS access.
NetApp supports dual port 10G Chelsio cards which are configured in a portchannel and connected to the pair of
Cisco Nexus 5500 Series downstream. This allows end-to-end 10G access, we have implemented jumbo frames
on the ports and have priority flow control on, with platinum COS for the NetApp storage data access. The NetApp
connectivity diagram is shown below. Here again, we have a total of 40G bandwidth available for the servers
(Figure 41).