Cisco Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect Scheda Tecnica
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Cisco UCS 2204XP Fabric Extender
The Cisco UCS 2204XP Fabric Extender (Figure 4) has four 10 Gigabit Ethernet, FCoE-capable, SFP+ ports that
connect the blade chassis to the fabric interconnect. Each Cisco UCS 2204XP has sixteen 10 Gigabit Ethernet
ports connected through the midplane to each half-width slot in the chassis. Typically configured in pairs for
redundancy, two fabric extenders provide up to 80 Gbps of I/O to the chassis.
Figure 4. Cisco UCS 2204XP Fabric Extender
Cisco SingleConnect Technology
data center. Cisco SingleConnect unifies LAN, SAN, and systems management into one simplified link for rack
servers, blade servers, and virtual machines.
SingleConnect is an end-to-end I/O architecture. It incorporates
, and Cisco Fabric Extender (FEX) Technology to connect every server on a single network fabric and
on a single network layer. SingleConnect innovations dramatically simplify IT operations, reduce data center costs,
and are exclusive to the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS).
Cisco SingleConnect is one connection:
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For rack servers and blade servers
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For LAN, SAN, and systems management
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For physical servers and virtual machines
Features and Benefits
Table 1 summarizes the main features and benefits of the Cisco UCS 2200 Series.
Table 1.
Features and Benefits
Feature
Benefit
Management by Cisco
UCS Manager
UCS Manager
● Reduces TCO by removing management modules from the chassis, making the chassis stateless
● Provides a single, highly available management domain for all system chassis, reducing administrative tasks
● Provides a single, highly available management domain for all system chassis, reducing administrative tasks
Autoconfiguration
Simplifies operation by automatically synchronizing firmware levels between the fabric extenders and the
interconnects
interconnects
Unified fabric
● Decreases TCO by reducing the number of network interface cards (NICs), host bus adapters (HBAs), switches,
and cables needed
● Transparently encapsulates Fibre Channel packets into Ethernet
Automatic failover
Increases availability with an active-active data plane
Scalable bandwidth
Reduces TCO by optimizing overall system capacity to match actual workload demands
Environmental
monitoring
monitoring
Removes the need for chassis management modules
Lossless fabric
Provides a reliable, robust foundation for unifying LAN and SAN traffic on a single transport
Priority flow control
(PFC)
(PFC)
● Simplifies management of multiple traffic flows over a single network link
● Supports different classes of service, allowing both lossless and classic Ethernet on the same fabric
● Supports different classes of service, allowing both lossless and classic Ethernet on the same fabric