Redundancy - blade through an ANC and 10 GB Nic

Hello

We are about to introduce new blades with a single ANC (two ports) and 10 GB NIC Dell in our environment.

The ANC will be used for the intellectual property and FCoE. Now, there is an internal discussion on the redundancy that this is just a NON per blade. I see this as a single point of failure. I think we should at least use the 10 GB NIC to separate a part of traffic (for example, management or vmotion).

I'm curious, how do you see it or how did you design this for your environment?

Thank you

We run two dual ANC port, for a total of four connections converged 10 g. Each ANC has a connection to each switch fabric upstream.

Each link is used for FCoE and also makes all the VLANS (MGMT, vMotion, NFS, invited). We run multicard vmotion and that each link is used for VMotion traffic.

We tag traffic with COS values on the n1kv and let the fabric UCS penetration queuing to ensure each traffic class a part of the link, but not to limit it to only the part if the other types of traffic are not all of their allocation consumes.

With only a single ANC won't FCoE storage redundancy, even if you can use your other 10G to create network redundancy.

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