FC and FCoE Switches and Directors

NetApp delivers a broad portfolio of end-to-end Fibre Channel (FC) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) SAN solutions for your most demanding environments. Whether you’re looking for high performance, availability, or scalability, we have the solution for you. To help you realize the benefits of shared storage and leverage the unique capabilities of our SAN solutions, we partner with industry-leading providers of FC and FCoE SAN infrastructure and applications.

NetApp sells and supports Fibre Channel and FCoE switches, directors, backbones, and SAN extension switches from Brocade and Cisco. In order to serve all levels of your deployment needs, from those of your smallest departments to those of your largest data centers, we support models ranging from entry-level fabric switches to data center backbones. You can use the following table to determine which are most suitable for your SAN environment.

FC and FCoE Switches SAN Extension Switches Max Port Count FC FCoE Ethernet Entry Midrange Enterprise Brocade 300 24 ports √     √     Brocade 5100 40 ports √       √   Brocade 6510 48 ports √       √   Brocade 5300 80 ports √       √ √ Cisco MDS 9124 24 ports √     √ √ Cisco MDS 9134 32 ports √       √ Brocade 8000 32 Ports √ √ √ √ √ Brocade 10-24 FCoE Blade for the DCX 24 ports √ √ √     √ Cisco Nexus 5010 28 Ports √ √ √ √ Cisco Nexus 5020 56 Ports √ √ √   √ √ Cisco Nexus 5548 48 Ports √ √ √   √ √ Cisco Nexus 5548UP 48 Ports √ √ √   √ √ Cisco Nexus 5596UP 96 Ports √ √ √   √ √ Fibre Channel Directors and Backbones Product Max Port Count FC FCoE Ethernet Entry Midrange Enterprise Brocade DCX 8510 Backbones 8510-4: 192 Ports 8510-8: 384 Ports √ √ (with blade)       √ Brocade DCX-4S 192 Ports √ √ (with blade) √     √ Brocade DCX 512 Ports √ √ (with blade) √     √ Cisco MDS 9506 192 Ports √         √ Cisco MDS 9509 336 Ports √         √ Cisco MDS 9513 528 Ports √         √ SAN Extension Switches Product Max Port Count FC FCoE Ethernet Entry Midrange Enterprise Cisco MDS 9222i 22 Ports: 18 FC, 4 GbE √   √   √ √