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Figure 2.
I/O Interface and Cabling Before Implementing ToR Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch Unified Fabric
To address the fabric infrastructure challenges, UITS deployed two Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches at the top of
each rack and ran cables through ceiling cable trays rather than under the raised floor to an improved core built
around Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches and the Cisco
each rack and ran cables through ceiling cable trays rather than under the raised floor to an improved core built
around Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches and the Cisco
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MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Switches. UITS uses one
QLogic 8042 or 8152 dual-attached converged network adapter (CNA) per server and the built-in Gigabit Ethernet
adapter for server management. CNAs present both a physical Ethernet NIC and Fibre Channel HBA to the server’s
PCI Express (PCIe) bus, passing both traffic streams onto a single unified network fabric - all transparent to the
operating system.
adapter for server management. CNAs present both a physical Ethernet NIC and Fibre Channel HBA to the server’s
PCI Express (PCIe) bus, passing both traffic streams onto a single unified network fabric - all transparent to the
operating system.
Today, instead of 8 to 10 cables per server below the floor going to a central switch, there are 2 prewired cables per
server going to the ToR Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches, which are connected through fiber aggregation panels to
the core through two six-strand fibers in ceiling trays, as shown in Figure 3. With the 10 Gigabit Ethernet
infrastructure, UITS uses fewer cables and has more bandwidth and better performance to support applications than
with the previous solution. In addition, cable and overall network management has been radically simplified.
server going to the ToR Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches, which are connected through fiber aggregation panels to
the core through two six-strand fibers in ceiling trays, as shown in Figure 3. With the 10 Gigabit Ethernet
infrastructure, UITS uses fewer cables and has more bandwidth and better performance to support applications than
with the previous solution. In addition, cable and overall network management has been radically simplified.
Figure 3.
I/O Interface and Cabling After Implementation of Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Unified Fabric
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