Used Cisco Unified Computing - UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnects

UCS system consists of one or two UCS 6100 series switches or fabric interconnects. A UCS system with two fabric interconnects is typically deployed in active-active pair that supports failover. These fabric interconnects are based on the same switching technology as the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches; however Nexus 5000 series switches can not work as UCS 6100 series fabric interconnects and vice versa since UCS 6100 series provides additional features and management capabilities. In these fabric interconnects out-of-band management, including switch redundancy, is supported through dedicated management and clustering ports. These fabric interconnects also feature embedded UCS manager which is used to manage the entire UCS system. They also support Cisco VN-Link architecture which is required for policy-based virtual machine connectivity. There are four expansion modules available for the Cisco UCS 6100 series:

Part # N10-E0080

Product Description: Eight Fiber Channel ports.

Part # N10-E0060

Product Description: Six Fiber Channel ports.

Part # N10-E0600

Product Description: Six 10-Gbps Ethernet ports.

Part # N10-E0440

Product Description: Four 10-Gbps Ethernet ports and four Fibre Channel ports).