Cisco Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect Hoja De Datos

 

 

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The Cisco UCS 6300 Series provides the management and communication backbone for the Cisco UCS B-Series 

Blade Servers, 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis, and C-Series Rack Servers managed by Cisco UCS. All servers 

attached to the fabric interconnects become part of a single, highly available management domain. In addition, by 

supporting unified fabric, the Cisco UCS 6300 Series provides both LAN and SAN connectivity for all servers within 

its domain. 

From a networking perspective, the Cisco UCS 6300 Series uses a cut-through architecture, supporting 

deterministic, low-latency, line-rate 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet ports, switching capacity of 2.56 terabits per second 

(Tbps), and 320 Gbps of bandwidth per chassis, independent of packet size and enabled services. The product 

family supports Cisco

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 low-latency, lossless 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet

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 unified network fabric capabilities, which 

increase the reliability, efficiency, and scalability of Ethernet networks. The fabric interconnect supports multiple 

traffic classes over a lossless Ethernet fabric from the server through the fabric interconnect. Significant TCO 

savings can be achieved with an FCoE optimized server design in which network interface cards (NICs), host bus 

adapters (HBAs), cables, and switches can be consolidated. 

Figure 2.    Cisco UCS 6300 Series Fabric Interconnects and 2304 Fabric Extender 

 

The Cisco UCS 6300 Series is 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. The capability to connect FCoE to native 

Fibre Channel protects existing storage system investments while dramatically simplifying in-rack cabling. 

The Cisco UCS 6300 Series hosts and runs Cisco UCS Manager in a highly available configuration, enabling the 

fabric interconnects to fully manage all Cisco UCS elements. Connectivity to the Cisco UCS 5100 Series blade 

chassis is maintained through the Cisco UCS 2200 Series or 2304 Fabric Extenders in each blade chassis. The 

Cisco UCS 6300 Series interconnects support out-of-band management through a dedicated 10/100/1000-Mbps 

Ethernet management port as well as in-band management. Cisco UCS Manager typically is deployed in a 

clustered active-passive configuration on redundant fabric interconnects connected through dual 10/100/1000 

Ethernet clustering ports. 

For virtualized environments, the Cisco UCS 6300 Series supports Cisco virtualization-aware networking and Cisco 

Data Center Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) architecture. Data Center VM-FEX allows the 

interconnects to provide policy-based virtual machine connectivity, with network properties moving with the virtual 

machine, and a consistent operational model for both physical and virtual environments. 

                                                 

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 All Cisco UCS 6300 Series ports can alternatively be configured for 1 Gigabit Ethernet (see Table 2).