High Level Cisco UCS architecture
Posted by craig 
- on September 28th, 2009 in Industry News, Tips, Virtualization | 2 Comments »
As the picture show above, it is the high level architecture which requires to run the entire UCS solution from Cisco. Not necessary every environment will require Nexus 7000, it is meant for large scale networking environment. You may go with various different switches to replace the Nexus 7000 in the picture depend on your requirement. In the current UCS release, the UCS 6100 interconnect fabric will integrate with the MDS 9000 series Fiber Channel environment or others compatible FC switches. This allow UCS blade I/O to be consolidated with CNA with 10Gbps per connection as FCoE. This had significant reduce the physical cabling requirement per blade chassis.
Tags: Cisco, FCoE, ucs
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Wondering why both the Cisco UCS 6100 FI do not cross connect to SAN A and SAN B? Or this is just an example?
I will later post another topic to further discuss about the question you have. As for now, I will able to tell you that UCS 6100 is not fully function as Nexus 5000 did. Both product is behave slightly differently which Nexus 5000 is end to end FCoE but UCS 6100 is only up to the level from Chassis to switch and not until the storage level.