Nexus 5596 to join Brocade fabric

Question

Hi all, I tried to search but didn't find a "real" answer, it is not clear if it is possible or not...
Problem: I always worked with homogeneous Brocade fabrics. Some days ago my company asked me if it is possible to add a Nexus 5596UB to an existing (6 switches) production Brocade fabric. I underlined production as we should not interrupt SAN traffic on joining the fabric nor we should reboot and/or reconfigure existing switches.
I found a lot of info about "interoperability mode" on MDS switches but nothing on Nexus.
Can someone help me? Thanks.

Answer 1

According to the datasheet
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/nexus-5000-series-switches/data_sheet_c78-618603.html
Native interop 1,2,3 and 4 is supported !
Therefore you are ok, and have a TAC supported configuration.
Fibre Channel and FCoE Features (Requires Storage Services License)
●  T11 standards-compliant FCoE (FC-BB-5)
●  T11 FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) (FC-BB-5)
●  Any 10 Gigabit Ethernet port configurable as FCoE
●  SAN administration separate from LAN administration
●  FCP
●  Fibre Channel forwarding (FCF)
●  Fibre Channel standard port types: E, F, and NP
●  Fibre Channel enhanced port types: VE, TE, and VF
●  F-port trunking
●  F-port channeling
●  Direct attachment of FCoE and Fibre Channel targets
●  Up to 240 buffer credits per native Fibre Channel port
●  Up to 32 VSANs per switch
●  Fibre Channel (SAN) PortChannel
●  Native Interop Mode 1
●  Native Interop Mode 2
●  Native Interop Mode 3
●  Native Interop Mode 4
●  VSAN trunking
●  Fabric Device Management Interface (FDMI)
●  Fibre Channel ID (FCID) persistence
●  Distributed device alias services
●  In-order delivery
●  Port tracking
●  Cisco N-Port Virtualization (NPV) technology
●  N-port identifier virtualization (NPIV)
●  Fabric services: Name server, registered state change notification (RSCN), login services, and name-server zoning
●  Per-VSAN fabric services
●  Cisco Fabric Services
●  Diffie-Hellman Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (DH-CHAP) and Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP)
●  Distributed device alias services
●  Host-to-switch and switch-to-switch FC-SP authentication
●  Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF)
●  Fabric binding for Fibre Channel
●  Standard zoning
●  Port security
●  Domain and port
●  Enhanced zoning
●  SAN PortChannels
●  Cisco Fabric Analyzer
●  Fibre Channel traceroute
●  Fibre Channel ping
●  Fibre Channel debugging
●  Cisco Fabric Manager support
●  Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S)
●  Boot from SAN over VPC/EVPC