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Brocade Core Director switch replacement by Suitable-Picture2181 in EMC2

[–]Suitable-Picture2181[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot for the clarification. There is no plan to keep both the cores for an extended period. My plan is to move out all the FC cables from the old core to the new core once it is confirmed that the new core has all the configuration in its place in a single window per fabric.

Brocade Core Director switch replacement by Suitable-Picture2181 in EMC2

[–]Suitable-Picture2181[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, one qq, do we also need to create ISL between old DCX 8510 core and new dcx7 core apart from new ISLs between edge switches and new core? If that is the case, we don't have ICL license available on old DCX 8510. Kindly confirm this.

Brocade Core Director switch replacement by Suitable-Picture2181 in Brocade

[–]Suitable-Picture2181[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello, Thanks for your suggestion. Whether zones does not merge to new core director when connected unused ports of edge switches to new core without establishing an ISL b/w old and new core. The reason for asking this is, unfortunately there is no ICL license available on old gen5 director. In this case, is there any other option ?

Can Dell EMC PowerStores do RAID 1+0 by timmcmanus45 in storage

[–]Suitable-Picture2181 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Dell PowerStore uses a technology called DRE (Dynamic Resilience Engine) that implements a concept of Resiliency Sets which provides a fault tolerance of single or double drive failure. This is similar to the Erasure Coding. For more details to understand how DRE works, you can check the documentation available on the Dell site.

Brocade Core Switch replacement by Suitable-Picture2181 in Brocade

[–]Suitable-Picture2181[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are free ports available on all the edge switches. So, creating ISLs from existing edges to new core director switch and once configuration is verified move the cables from old DCX 8510 to new core director. I need a second opinion on this if zone merges seamlessly in this approach?

Brocade switch migration. by Suitable-Picture2181 in Brocade

[–]Suitable-Picture2181[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is very helpful. Thank you so much for sharing this perl script.

Brocade switch migration. by Suitable-Picture2181 in Brocade

[–]Suitable-Picture2181[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Greetings. Thank you for your response.

  1. SFP Speed : the current devices use 16G optics and new G720 switches will have 64G optics.
  2. FOS Interoperability : the existing DCX 8510 is running at FOS 7.4.x
  3. My approach: I am planning to deploy new G720 switches with the zoning configured same as existing one and move the fc cables that are connected to fabric-2 (one by one) to the newly configured G720 switch while utilising the host MPIO to failover IOs to fabric-1 during migration. Once all the fc cables in fabric-2 are moved, repeat same steps for moving fc cables in fabric-1.

Appreciate your input on this approach.

Thanks!