Ucs Fabric Interconnect Cabling

Cisco ucs fabric interconnects and fabric extenders are part of our unified fabric solution for data center networks.

Ucs fabric interconnect cabling. Chassis links are distributed across asics on the fabric interconnects. Connect to the console port of fabric interconnect 1 which will be the primary member in the cluster. This configuration does not follow best. Cisco ucs 6200 series fabric interconnects expand the cisco ucs networking portfolio increasing capacity and port density and reducing power consumption.

Cabling considerations for fabric port channels when you configure the links between the cisco ucs 2200 series fex and a cisco ucs 6200 series fabric interconnect in fabric port channel mode the available virtual interface namespace vif on the adapter varies depending on where the fex uplinks are connected to the fabric interconnect ports. They provide the management and communication backbone for cisco ucs b series blade servers 5100 series blade server chassis and c series rack servers and cisco nexus 2232pp fabric extenders. The console port on a cisco ucs fabric interconnect provides an rs232 serial connection over an rj 45 interface that can be used to perform initial setup on a newly installed system that does not as yet have other connectivity options perform software recovery tasks when other connectivity is unavailable monitor network statistics and errors configure snmp agent parameters or download. Ucs is an integrated solution that handles both network traffic and management control.

Following on from cabling our cisco ucs infrastructure we will first begin to configure the fabric interconnects using the basic system configuration dialog. Chassis cabling has been distributed across the fabric interconnect ports so that each link of the pair is connected to a port that has a distinct back end processor chip within the fabric interconnect. The switch has thirty two 1 10 gbps fixed ethernet fcoe and fibre channel ports and one expansion slot. Cisco ucs 6248up 48 port fabric interconnect.

The cisco ucs 6400 series fabric interconnects are built to consolidate lan and san traffic onto a single unified fabric saving the capital expenditures capex and operating expenses opex associated with multiple parallel networks different types of adapter cards switching infrastructure and cabling within racks. Except where noted both the ucs 6332 fabric interconnect and the ucs 6332 16up fabric interconnect support all the transceivers listed in this section. On the cisco ucs 6332 fabric interconnect all 1 gigabit and 10 gigabit transceivers and twinax cables must use a qsa module cvr qsfp sfp10g to operate in a 40 gbps qsfp port. Power on this fabric interconnect leaving the secondary interconnect powered off for now.

Consistency virtual machine fabric extender technology enables a consistent operational model and visibility between physical and virtual environments.