Tom, N2232 + UCS 6100 for C-Series connectivity and in-band management via UCSM is not supported today, and wouldn't work even if you tried.
Yes, all the hardware is capable. It's just a matter of brining that capability into the UCSM software. Ping your Cisco SE for details ;) -Brad Hedlund http://bradhedlund.com On Jan 27, 2011, at 6:06 PM, "Tom Lanyon" <tom+c-...@oneshoeco.com> wrote: > Hi list, > > Slightly off-topic for NSP, but was just wondering if anyone's tried plugging > a 2232PP Nexus FEX into a UCS 6100 series fabric interconnect? > > This doesn't appear to be supported (although it's apparently possible to > plug one of the 48x GigE FEXs in), but I'm curious whether it currently works > unsupported or is planned to be supported in a future software release. > > The goal here is to be able to plug a bunch of C-series UCS servers in via 10 > Gig + FCoE so that they can be managed by the same UCS Manager instance as > all the B-series UCS blade servers connected to a (pair of) 6100. > > Obviously we can consolidate all of this at a higher level into a N5K or N7K, > but then we're not able to manage the C-series servers via the UCS Manager. > The only supported option seems to be plugging the C-series servers directly > into the 6100 devices, but then we're limited to a maximum of ~40 servers > (dual-homed to a pair of 40-port 6140s, minus whatever ports are occupied by > uplinks or B-series chassis downlinks) and also need to pay the per-port > licenses and have a nightmare cabling all the servers back to the 6100s. > > My understanding is that the 6100 and N5k share common HW, so I'd imagine > that this is theoretically possible... > > Thanks, > Tom > > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
