Already spent an hour on the design for one of my customer vSphere project but still unable to figure out yet. Since this is the first FCOE via Nexus implementation in Malaysia, I don’t know how the actual implementation or setup is going to be :

• 2x IBM Blade chassis will use Nexus 4000I switch module each
• There will be 2x Nexus 5000
• Each IBM blade server FC connectivity supplied by FC chip on Converged Network Adapater (CNA)
• Each IBM blade server Ethernet connectivity Ethernet supplied by Ethernet chip on CNA
• There will be FC physical connection from Nexus 4000i to Nexus 5000
• There will be FC physical connection from Nexus 5000 to Netapp back-end storage

Okay, seem I already covered all the hardware parts here and the physical connection more or less will look like below pic :

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Well, seems ESXi is going to be VMware preferred hypervisor architectures now. Time for us to learn more about vMA, rcli & etc. However, I can’t imagine my customer feedback when they know about this. Windows admin, doing scripting to automate their tasks?Migrate to the VMware ESXi Hypervisor Architecture Today!
Now is the time to migrate to VMware ESXi, the preferred hypervisor architecture from VMware. ESXi is recommended for all deployments of the new vSphere 4.1 release. For planning purposes, it is important to know that vSphere 4.1 is the last vSphere release to support both ESX and ESXi hypervisor architectures; all future releases of vSphere will only support the ESXi architecture

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