Unified Computing System

Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects and Fabric Extenders

Create a single, highly available management domain

Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects and Fabric Extenders help you create a single, highly available management domain that supports all attached UCS chassis, blade servers, and rack servers.

Cisco UCS 6300 Series Fabric Interconnects

Cisco 6300 Series Fabric Interconnects provide the management and communication backbone for the Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers, Cisco UCS 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis, and Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers.

• Up to 500 Gbps bandwidth
• Ports capable of line-rate; low-latency; lossless 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet; Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE); and 8-, 4-, and 2-Gbps Fibre Channel
• Centralized management with Cisco UCS Manager software
• Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis capabilities for cooling and serviceability
• Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable Plus (QSFP+) port for rack-mount server connectivity

Cisco UCS 6200 Series Fabric Interconnects

The Cisco UCS 6200 Series Fabric Interconnects are a core part of the Cisco Unified Computing System, providing both network connectivity and management capabilities for the system.

• Deliver line-rate, lossless 10 GE and FCoE, with native Fibre Channel SAN connectivity for all UCS servers
• Provide more than double the ports of the prior generation with universal port connectivity
• Lower barriers to deploying a virtualized environment for data centers
• Provide single-wire connectivity for LAN, SAN, and unified management, including rack servers
• Support native storage zoning and direct attached storage

Cisco Fabric Extenders for UCS Blade Server Chassis

• Provide converged LAN, SAN, and management connectivity to blade servers with the same hardware
• Offer flexibility of LAN Ethernet/FCoE 1/10 GE or SAN Native Fibre Channel for all UCS servers
• Improve server bandwidth utilization through load balancing with port channels
• Manage chassis power supply, fans, and blade servers through the fabric interconnects

Cisco Fabric Extenders for UCS Rack Servers

• Seamless inclusion of UCS rack servers into UCS Manager domain with UCS blade servers
• Connect rack servers to UCS fabric interconnects with a single cable for I/O and management
• Provide converged LAN, SAN, and management connectivity to blade servers with the same hardware
• Deploy the right server and keep management simple by integrating with UCS fabric interconnects and UCS Manager