Cisco Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect 백서
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Migrate to 40 Gbps with Cisco UCS Fabric
Interconnects
Interconnects
The third-generation Cisco
®
Unified Fabric for the Cisco Unified Computing System
™
(Cisco UCS
®
) delivers higher speeds for both Ethernet and Fibre Channel
connectivity. It provides high performance, consistent latency, and a lossless fabric to
address the needs of our customers deploying high-capacity data centers.
address the needs of our customers deploying high-capacity data centers.
The Cisco UCS fabric interconnect is one of the main components of Cisco UCS. It provides the communication
backbone for Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers and C-Series Rack Servers. All the servers that are attached to
the interconnect are part of a single, highly available management domain. By supporting unified fabric, it provides
uniform access to both network and storage connectivity for all the servers within its domain. This architecture
provides simlified management and greater orchestration for lower total cost of ownership (TCO). The following are
the main features that help reduce TCO:
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Centralized management: Cisco UCS Manager provides open and extensible embedded management of
all software and hardware components of Cisco UCS across multiple chassis, rack servers, composable
infrastructure, and virtulal machines through policy- and model-based management.
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Because the solution has only a few management touch points, deployment and provisioning processes
are faster.
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The solution offers stateless computing that allows the use of any resource at any time.
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Converged infrastructure: The lossless fabric can support both Ethernet and storage traffic through
flexible port configuration.
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The use of less cabling allows more efficient use of power and cooling resources.
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The solution supports both Fibre Channel and Ethernet uplink connectivity.
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High performance and scale: Cisco Fabric Extender Technology (FEX Technology) enables organizations
to scale up to 160 servers in a single unified system, and Cisco Data Center Virtual Machine FEX (VM-FEX)
helps provide a consistent operational model and visiblity between the physical and virtual environments.
The third-generation unified fabric interconnects
—Cisco UCS 6332 and 6332-16UP Fabric Interconnects—make
the transition to 40 Gigabit Ethernet and 16-Gbps Fibre Channel smooth and cost effective. The new components
provide investment protection; they are backward compatible with second-generation components, so they can be
swapped into exisiting systems or provisioned with newer infrastructure instances.
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Cisco UCS 6300 Series Fabric Interconnects provide 40 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity upstream to access-
layer switches and downstream to Cisco UCS servers.
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The Cisco 6332 is a 32-port 40-Gbps fabric interconnect in a 1-rack-unit (1RU) that supports both
Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). The 40-Gbps port can also be converted to 10 Gigabit
Ethernet ports through either a breakout cable that converts a Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable (QSFP)