Ucs Fabric Interconnect Cabling

Cisco ucs 6200 series fabric interconnects expand the cisco ucs networking portfolio increasing capacity and port density and reducing power consumption.

Ucs fabric interconnect cabling.

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. Power on this fabric interconnect leaving the secondary interconnect powered off for now. Cisco ucs 6248up 48 port fabric interconnect. Consistency virtual machine fabric extender technology enables a consistent operational model and visibility between physical and virtual environments.

Except where noted both the ucs 6332 fabric interconnect and the ucs 6332 16up fabric interconnect support all the transceivers listed in this section. Chassis links are distributed across asics on the fabric interconnects. The cisco ucs 6248up 48 port fabric interconnect figure 3 is a one rack unit 1ru 10 gigabit ethernet fcoe and fibre channel switch offering up to 960 gbps of throughput and up to 48 ports. The switch has thirty two 1 10 gbps fixed ethernet fcoe and fibre channel ports and one expansion slot.

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. 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. Connect to the console port of fabric interconnect 1 which will be the primary member in the cluster. This configuration does not follow best.

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. 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. Therefore proper cabling between fis and iom modules is an important design consideration.

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.