Cisco Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect Hoja De Datos
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Table 1 summarizes the characteristics of the Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect.
Table 1.
Characteristics of Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect
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Item
Cisco UCS 6324
Description
Fabric interconnect with 4 unified ports and 1 scalability port
Form factor
I/O module for Cisco UCS 5108 chassis
Number of 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, FCoE, or Fibre Channel Enhanced Small
Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP+) external ports
Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP+) external ports
4
Number of 40 Gigabit Ethernet or FCoE Enhanced Quad SFP (QSFP) ports
1
Server ports
16 x 10GBASE-KR lanes
Number of rack servers supported
3
Single Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis: 7
With second Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis: 4
Throughput
500 Gbps
Latency
Less than a microsecond
Quality-of-service (QoS) hardware queues
16 (8 each for unicast and multicast)
Features and Benefits
Table 2 summarizes the features and benefits of the Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect.
Table 2.
Features and Benefits
Feature
Benefit
Management by Cisco UCS
Manager
Manager
● Allows all elements connected to the interconnects to participate in a single, highly available management
domain
Unified fabric
● Decreases TCO by reducing the number of NICs, HBAs, switches, and cables needed
● Transparently encapsulates Fibre Channel packets into Ethernet
● Transparently encapsulates Fibre Channel packets into Ethernet
Performance
● Provides high-speed, low-latency connectivity to the chassis
Lossless fabric
● Provides a reliable, robust foundation for unifying LAN and SAN traffic on a single transport
Priority flow control (PFC)
● Simplifies management of multiple traffic flows over a single network link
● Supports different classes of service, helping enable both lossless and classic Ethernet on the same fabric
● Supports different classes of service, helping enable both lossless and classic Ethernet on the same fabric
Cisco Data Center VM-FEX
technology
technology
● Helps enable a consistent operational model for both virtual and physical environments
● Provides the same level of network visibility for virtualized and nonvirtualized environments
● Improves diagnostic and troubleshooting capabilities in a virtual environment
● Simplifies network and security policy enforcement when migrating virtual machines from one host to another
● Provides the same level of network visibility for virtualized and nonvirtualized environments
● Improves diagnostic and troubleshooting capabilities in a virtual environment
● Simplifies network and security policy enforcement when migrating virtual machines from one host to another
SFP+ ports
● Increases flexibility with a range of interconnect solutions, including copper Twinax cable for short runs and
fiber for long runs
● Consumes less power per port than traditional solutions
● Helps enable cost-effective connections on fabric extenders with Cisco Fabric Extender Transceiver (FET)
● Helps enable cost-effective connections on fabric extenders with Cisco Fabric Extender Transceiver (FET)
optics
SFP-compatible ports
● Allows all fixed SFP+ ports to be configured to operate in 1 Gigabit Ethernet mode with the transceiver options
specified for use with the SFP-compatible ports listed in Table 3
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The Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect requires Cisco UCS Manager Release 3.0 or later operating software.
3
See the Cisco UCS Mini blade server chassis specifications sheet for all the permutations.