Whether you’re looking for high performance, availability, or scalability in your data storage environment, you’ll find what you need in the broad NetApp® portfolio of end-to-end Fibre Channel (FC), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and Ethernet solutions.

To help you realize the benefits of shared data storage and to leverage the unique capabilities of our SAN solutions, NetApp partners with industry-leading providers of infrastructure and applications. For instance, we sell and support switches, directors, backbones, and extension switches from Brocade and Cisco to serve your full range of deployment needs: from entry-level fabric switches to data center backbones, for the smallest departments to the largest data centers.

Use the following table to determine which Brocade® and Cisco® models are best suited to your SAN environment.

• Switches
• Directors and backbones
• SAN Extension Switches

Switches Product Max Port Count FC FCoE Ethernet Entry Midrange Enterprise Brocade 300 24 ports v     v v   Brocade 6505 24 Ports v v v Brocade 6510 48 ports v       v v Brocade VA-40FC 40 ports v       v   Brocade 5300 80 ports v       v v Brocade 6520 96 ports v         v Cisco® MDS 9124 24 ports v     v v Cisco MDS 9148 48 ports v     v v Brocade VDX 6720 1U 24 ports 2U 60 ports v v v v Brocade VDX 6730 1U 32 ports 2U 76 ports v v v v v Cisco Nexus 5548 48 Ports v v v   v v Cisco Nexus 5548UP 48 Ports v v v   v v Cisco Nexus 5596T 96 Ports     v   v v Cisco Nexus 5596UP 96 Ports v v v   v v   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 v       v Brocade DCX-4S 256 Ports v v (with blade)       v Brocade DCX 512 Ports v v (with blade)       v Cisco MDS 9506 192 Ports v v       v Cisco MDS 9509 336 Ports v v       v Cisco MDS 9513 528 Ports v v       v   Extension Switches Product Max Port Count FC FCoE Ethernet Entry Midrange Enterprise Brocade 7800 22 Ports v   v   v v Cisco MDS 9222i 70 Ports v   v   v v Cisco Nexus® 2224T-1GE 26 Ports     v   v Cisco Nexus 2248TP 52 Ports     v   v Cisco Nexus 2232PP 40 Ports   v v   v v Cisco Nexus 2232TM 40 Ports   v   v v