Hi folks, making my first blade deployment. My storage array is an EMC VNX 5300, so it has FCoE support. I've never set up FCoE before, but I imagine it's pretty straightforward - probably more of a thing for the EMC forums anyways.
Would be a Dell M1000e enclosure, using the version 1.1 midplane (so that slot A supports the 10GbE).
First choice was to put 10GbE interconnects in slot A (Dell M8024-K), a converged switch in slot B (M8428-K) with a converged adapter in the blades, and an FC switch in slot C (an M6505) with an FC adapter in the blades. This would in theory give my hosts
4x 10GbE and 4x FC HBA right? Two 10GbE from A, two 10GbE from B, two fibre channel from B, and two fibre channel from C. Or.... would that be 4x 10Gbe, 2x FC HBA, and 2x FCoE HBA? The chassis interconnects would connect out to TOR switching, which would then head out to the core networking. There would be no TOR FC switching, I'd just connect a storage adapter to each switch (for example, controller 1 would go to B1 and C1, controller 2 would go to B2 and C2).
Does this seem sane? Am I missing the ball entirely?