10Gbit FCIP Hardware

[bigredshark]

A quick and relatively basic question, does anybody know of a FCIP gateway/router which support 10Gig Ethernet for the IP side. It seems cisco haven't come up with an MDS IP Services blade which does it yet so I'm slightly short of ideas...

Or has anybody seen the Cisco Nexus converged datacenter switches with their FCoE stuff.....

 

[bigredshark]

I'm blessed with DWDM on dark fibre between all our core datacenters so bandwidth isn't a problem. Essentially I'm moving more infrastructure on to SAN storage and I both need to replicate between datacenters and I'm looking at backing up snapshots to remote SANs as well. 1Gig FCIP is working well in our pilots at the moment but given the volumes of data I don't think it's a viable longer term solution.

It looks like I'm off to see Cisco next week anyway so I'll have a chat then, just wanted to check I hadn't missed something which was on the market.

 

[bigredshark]

Well, I had a long meeting with Cisco today...and the line seems to be don't hold your breath for 10Gb FCIP because they'd really prefer to sell you one of the big Nexus switches and do FCOE. Which leaves me in a corner really, bite the bullet and go for FCOE (and the Nexus switches, which no one I know has worked with yet) or give up and just run the SAN seperately from the IP side and dedicate it some DWDM wavelengths...how boring...

 

[bigredshark]

Dedicate some DWDM. I think FCOE is too new personally..........

If you do go the Nexus route demand some references you can visit or talk to before buying.

We would but I think they're fairly pointless, Cisco will always have someone willing to sing their praises for a discount on their next deal (God knows we do it enough).

I strongly suspect it'll be seperate wavelengths in the end, a shame as in theory FCOE would be a big win, really drops down the amount of kit we need having a unified fabric (which would do wonders for our power consumption)