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We have a Cisco FC environment.  We use Dell M1000e blade centers.  We use the Dell blades for Windows and RHEL Linux standalone servers and also for VMWare VSphere environment.  In the past we've used the Emulex pass through cards and connected back to the Cisco MDS-9509 (SAN-OS 3.3 / version 1 hdwr).  We are needing to roll out several of these M1000e chassis' and were thinking of using the Brocade M5424 SAN Switches instead of the Emulex pass throughs.  I found a document from Dell about connecting the M1000e to a Cisco SAN fabric.  We're at the right rev level to enable NPIV (N_Port ID Virtualization) technologies.  Dell is pretty hard to borrow gear to test it out, so we might be forced to buy it this way if we want to proceed in this direction, which brings up a few questions...  Does anyone know if we will run into zoning issues zoning with EMC Control Center 6.0?  Does anyone know of compatibility issues with this setup with Windows, RHEL or VMWare?  Any gotchya's we need to look out for?  Thanks very much!  Bob Lopes
Zoning Host on Brocade M5424 to CX4 on Cisco MDS-9509 via ECC 6.0 with NPIV 
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