Cisco Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect White Paper
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Cisco UCS Unified Fabric
January 2016
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Unified Network
Fabric, 4 to Each
Fabric Extender
40-Gbps Bandwidth
to Fabric A
40-Gbps Bandwidth
to Fabric B
Hardware
PortChannels
Mezzanine LOM
Card Form
Factor
Fibre Channel HBAs
Primary
Path
Secondary
Path
More Than 256
Programmable Virtual
Interfaces
Ethernet NICs
Cisco UCS
VIC 1340
4 Additional Connections
Enabled Through Optional
Port Expander Card
Figure 8. The Mezzanine-Based Port Expander Provides Two 40-Gbps Interfaces
Through a Hardware Port Channel
Through a Hardware Port Channel
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8 10GBASE-KR
Unified Network
Fabric, 4 to Each
Fabric Extender
40-Gbps Bandwidth
to Fabric A
40-Gbps Bandwidth
to Fabric B
Hardware
PortChannels
Mezzanine LOM
Card Form
Factor
Fibre Channel HBAs
Primary
Path
Secondary
Path
More Than 256
Programmable Virtual
Interfaces
Ethernet NICs
Cisco UCS
VIC 1340
4 Additional Connections
Enabled Through Optional
Port Expander Card
Figure 9. The Cisco UCS 2304 Fabric Extender Exposes True Native 40-Gbps Unified
Fabric Interfaces in Conjunction with the Cisco UCS VIC 1340 and an Optional Port
Expander Card
Fabric Interfaces in Conjunction with the Cisco UCS VIC 1340 and an Optional Port
Expander Card