Ucs Fabric Interconnect Cabling

Following on from cabling our cisco ucs infrastructure we will first begin to configure the fabric interconnects using the basic system configuration dialog.

Ucs fabric interconnect cabling.

Cisco ucs 6248up 48 port fabric interconnect. This configuration does not follow best. The switch has thirty two 1 10 gbps fixed ethernet fcoe and fibre channel ports and one expansion slot. Connect to the console port of fabric interconnect 1 which will be the primary member in the cluster.

Cabling considerations for fabric port channels when you configure the links between the cisco ucs 2200 series fex and a cisco ucs 6200 series fabric interconnect in fabric port channel mode the available virtual interface namespace vif on the adapter varies depending on where the fex uplinks are connected to the fabric interconnect ports. Cisco ucs fabric interconnects and fabric extenders are part of our unified fabric solution for data center networks. Chassis links are distributed across asics on the fabric interconnects. Cisco ucs 6200 series fabric interconnects expand the cisco ucs networking portfolio increasing capacity and port density and reducing power consumption.

On the cisco ucs 6332 fabric interconnect all 1 gigabit and 10 gigabit transceivers and twinax cables must use a qsa module cvr qsfp sfp10g to operate in a 40 gbps qsfp port. The cisco ucs 6400 series fabric interconnects are built to consolidate lan and san traffic onto a single unified fabric saving the capital expenditures capex and operating expenses opex associated with multiple parallel networks different types of adapter cards switching infrastructure and cabling within racks. They provide the management and communication backbone for cisco ucs b series blade servers 5100 series blade server chassis and c series rack servers and cisco nexus 2232pp fabric extenders. Consistency virtual machine fabric extender technology enables a consistent operational model and visibility between physical and virtual environments.

Therefore proper cabling between fis and iom modules is an important design consideration. Except where noted both the ucs 6332 fabric interconnect and the ucs 6332 16up fabric interconnect support all the transceivers listed in this section. The console port on a cisco ucs fabric interconnect provides an rs232 serial connection over an rj 45 interface that can be used to perform initial setup on a newly installed system that does not as yet have other connectivity options perform software recovery tasks when other connectivity is unavailable monitor network statistics and errors configure snmp agent parameters or download. Power on this fabric interconnect leaving the secondary interconnect powered off for now.

All management and data movement intelligence for chassis components and blade servers is present in the fis and iom modules which are line cards for the fis.