topic Re: Brocade SAN and Cisco SAN ISL in ONTAP Hardware

Brocade SAN and Cisco SAN ISL

virendrata — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:29:17 GMT

Hi,

We have existing VNX storage connected to the Brocade SAN switches. (no free ports available on Brocade SAN Switches)

We have procured new AFF400 and Cisco SAN switches. Our objective is to migrate the data from VNX to NetApp.

Please help on how can we achieve this. Can ISL be done between OLD Brocade and New Cisco SAN switches.

From VNX the LUN are mapped to Windows servers

Viren

mike-d — Thu, 16 May 2024 12:15:03 GMT

ostiguy — Thu, 16 May 2024 20:30:04 GMT

I am not sure that is still supported - all the hardware models referenced there are extremely, extremely old - like 1/2/4Gbps FC switches.

The original poster may have to perform a FC switch migration first. Or, contemplate if they can safely free up some ports.