Cisco Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Server Libro blanco
Architectural Comparison: Cisco UCS and the Dell FX2 Platform
September 2015
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Cisco UCS with SingleConnect Technology
Cisco UCS is the only integrated system that reduces the number of hardware
components and combines both blade and rack servers in a single unified fabric and
management domain. Our approach eliminates management modules and switches
in every chassis, reducing the cost of powering, cooling, configuring, managing,
monitoring, and maintaining the infrastructure. Cisco UCS places all management
functions and configuration information in the fully redundant and highly available
Cisco UCS Manager.
components and combines both blade and rack servers in a single unified fabric and
management domain. Our approach eliminates management modules and switches
in every chassis, reducing the cost of powering, cooling, configuring, managing,
monitoring, and maintaining the infrastructure. Cisco UCS places all management
functions and configuration information in the fully redundant and highly available
Cisco UCS Manager.
Cisco® SingleConnect technology provides a way to connect all the devices and
virtual machines in a single Cisco UCS domain. It provides a low-latency, high-
bandwidth 10 Gigabit Ethernet unified fabric that carries three networks in one:
networks for IP, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and management traffic. The
system’s fabric extenders and VICs condense network layers so that only a single
network hop is required for traffic from the server or virtual machines to the fabric
interconnects. SingleConnect is implemented using industry standards and with
performance accelerated by custom silicon (Figure 5).
virtual machines in a single Cisco UCS domain. It provides a low-latency, high-
bandwidth 10 Gigabit Ethernet unified fabric that carries three networks in one:
networks for IP, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and management traffic. The
system’s fabric extenders and VICs condense network layers so that only a single
network hop is required for traffic from the server or virtual machines to the fabric
interconnects. SingleConnect is implemented using industry standards and with
performance accelerated by custom silicon (Figure 5).
Unified Fabric That Scales on Demand
Cisco unified fabric helps you scale data centers easily, quickly, and efficiently
without requiring a reevaluation of networking infrastructure every time you add
new servers. With Cisco UCS, the network is established once, with no changes
necessary as it scales to 160 servers per domain (or multiple domains of up to
6000 servers). Through aggregation of management and connectivity in the fabric
interconnects, every server in the domain is automatically connected northbound
to the LAN or SAN without time-consuming and risky reconfiguration at the chassis
and server levels.
Cisco unified fabric helps you scale data centers easily, quickly, and efficiently
without requiring a reevaluation of networking infrastructure every time you add
new servers. With Cisco UCS, the network is established once, with no changes
necessary as it scales to 160 servers per domain (or multiple domains of up to
6000 servers). Through aggregation of management and connectivity in the fabric
interconnects, every server in the domain is automatically connected northbound
to the LAN or SAN without time-consuming and risky reconfiguration at the chassis
and server levels.
End-to-End I/O Architecture with Performance Accelerated by Cisco Silicon
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Figure 5. Cisco UCS Cabling Simplicity of Cisco SingleConnect Technology Accelerated
Through Custom Silicon
Through Custom Silicon