White Paper Abstract:
This white paper is targeted at server, storage, and network administrators who plan to deploy IBM BladeCenter servers with the unified fabric solution of the Cisco Nexus® 4000 Series Switches. The Cisco® Nexus 4000 Series is Cisco's next-generation blade switch made available for IBM's blade chassis. It provides 20 full line rate interfaces at 1G or 10G, of which 14 are for the blade servers and 6 are for uplink connectivity. Building a strong Layer 2 Ethernet infrastructure, the Cisco Nexus 4000 also provides the capability to allow Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) traffic to traverse this network.