Cisco Systems N20-I6584

The first product in the Cisco UCS 2100 Series is the Cisco UCS 2104XP Fabric Extender. It has four 10 Gigabit Ethernet, FCoE-capable, Small Form-Factor Pluggable Plus (SFP+) ports that connect the blade chassis to the fabric interconnect. Each Cisco UCS 2104XP has eight 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports connected through the midplane to each half-width slot in the chassis. Typically configured in pairs for redundancy, two fabric extenders provide up to 80 Gbps of I/O to the chassis.

• Reduces TCO by removing management modules from the chassis, making the chassis stateless
• Provides a single, highly available management domain for all system chassis, reducing administrative tasks
• Simplifies operation by automatically synchronizing firmware levels between the fabric extenders and the interconnects
• Decreases TCO by reducing the number of network interface cards (NICs), host bus adapters (HBAs), switches, and cables needed
• Transparently encapsulates fiber channel packets into Ethernet
• Increases availability with an active-active data plane
• Reduces TCO by optimizing overall system capacity to match actual workload demands
• Removes the need for chassis management modules
• Provides a reliable, robust foundation for unifying LAN and SAN traffic on a single transport
• Simplifies management of multiple traffic flows over a single network link
• Supports different classes of service, enabling both lossless and classic Ethernet on the same fabric
• Enables consistent and coherent quality-of-service (QoS) management throughout the system
• Enables a consistent operational model between virtual and physical environments
• Provides the same level of network visibility for virtualized and non-virtualized environments
• Improves diagnostic and troubleshooting capabilities in a virtual environment
• Simplifies network and security policy enforcement when migrating virtual machines from one host to another
• Increases flexibility with a range of interconnect solutions, including copper Twinax cable for short runs and fiber for long runs
• Consumes less power per port than traditional solutions