FC and FCoE Switches and Directors

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NetApp delivers a broad portfolio of end-to-end Fibre Channel (FC), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Ethernet 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 infrastructure and applications.

NetApp sells and supports switches, directors, backbones, and 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.

Switches
Product Max Port Count FC FCoE Ethernet Entry Midrange Enterprise
Brocade 300
Brocade 300
24 ports      
Brocade 6505
Brocade 6505
24 Ports
Brocade 5100
Brocade 5100
40 ports        
Brocade 6510
Brocade 6510
48 ports      
Brocade VA-40FC
40 ports        
Brocade 5300
Brocade 5300
80 ports      
Cisco® MDS 9124
Cisco MDS 9124
24 ports    
Cisco MDS 9134
Cisco MDS 9134
32 ports      
Cisco MDS 9148
Cisco MDS 9148
48 ports    
Brocade 8000
Brocade 8000
32 Ports
Brocade VDX 6720
Brocade VDX 6720
1U 24 ports
2U 60 ports
Brocade VDX 6730
Brocade VDX 6730
1U 32 ports
2U 76 ports
Cisco Nexus 5010
Cisco Nexus 5010
28 Ports
Cisco Nexus 5020
Cisco Nexus 5020
56 Ports  
Cisco Nexus 5548
Cisco Nexus 5548
48 Ports  
Cisco Nexus 5548UP
Cisco Nexus 5548UP
48 Ports  
Cisco Nexus 5596UP
Cisco Nexus 5596UP
96 Ports  

Fibre Channel Directors and Backbones
Product Max Port Count FC FCoE Ethernet Entry Midrange Enterprise
Brocade DCX 8510 Backbones
Brocade DCX 8510 Backbones
8510-4: 192 Ports
8510-8: 384 Ports
     
Brocade DCX-4S
Brocade DCX-4S
256 Ports (with blade)      
Brocade DCX
Brocade DCX
512 Ports (with blade)      
Cisco MDS 9506
Cisco MDS 9506
192 Ports        
Cisco MDS 9509
Cisco MDS 9509
336 Ports        
Cisco MDS 9513
Cisco MDS 9513
528 Ports        

Extension Switches
Product Max Port Count FC FCoE Ethernet Entry Midrange Enterprise
Brocade 7800
Brocade 7800 Router
22 Ports    
Cisco MDS 9222i
Cisco MDS 9222i
70 Ports    
Cisco Nexus® 2224T-1GE
Cisco 2148T
26 Ports      
Cisco Nexus 2148T
Cisco 2148T
52 Ports      
Cisco Nexus 2248TP
Cisco 2148T
52 Ports      
Cisco Nexus 2232PP
Cisco 2148T
40 Ports    
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