Each qfx3008i qfabric interconnect chassis provides full redundancy with dual control boards, eight fabric modules, and redundant power supply modules. Fabric interconnect a end host mode fabric interconnect b end host mode production vlan 1020 backup vlan 3040 10 20 11,15,17 vlan 10,30 1 20,3040 2 3 production vlan 1020 backup vlan 3040. How to replace failed 6200 series cisco ucs fi real world ucs. Next time i will discuss the fabric extenders, the hardware component that links the fabric interconnect to. Anyway, out of the kindness of my heart i have documented this process below. Fast and flexible new third generation fabric interconnect. Cisco ucs 6120xp fabric interconnect network management device overview and full product specs on cnet. In cisco 6100 series fabric interconnect, the fixed module ports can be used only for server ports and ethernet uplinks ports.
The cisco ucs 6324 fabric interconnect fabric interconnects support outofband management through a dedicated 10100mbps ethernet management port. Cisco ucs to emc san iscsi connection through fabric. After initiating a fail over the ssh session will disconnect, reconnect to the cluster and confirm cluster state. How to reboot a cisco ucs 6100 series fabric interconnect. The fabric interconnect is the heart of cisco ucs systems.
Connect the l1 and l2 cables to the existing fabric interconnect. Customer is getting errors that show fabric interconnect a inventory is not complete switchinventory conditions. Fabric interconnect speed and connectivity for servers is determined by the type of fabric board installed in the system. Fabric 6248 with mds hello all, we are in stage of interconnecting single ibm v3700 san box with dual fi 6248 redundant via single cisco mds 9000 san switch with single ucs 5108 chasis. Power on the fi and configure the device in standalone mode. If youve purchased a ucs bundle, you would have got port licenses as part of the bundle typically 12 port licenses per fabric interconnect. Product description cisco ucs 6120xp fabric interconnect network management device device type network management device form factor rackmountable 1u ports qty 20 data link protocol 10 gigabit ethernet performance throughput. Cisco ucs 6200 series fabric interconnects data sheet. Cisco ucs 6200 fabric interconnects promote flexible, scalable convergence.
The ucs fabric interconnect is a core part of ciscos unified computing system, which is designed to improve scalability and reduce the total cost of ownership of data centers by integrating all components into a single platform, which acts as a single unit. Cisco ucs bseries ucs manager overview part 5 unixarena. I wanted to post this as a general guideline for those new to ucs who may be setting up their first lab or production environments. Elco connector series 6248 datasheet, cross reference. When the setup wizard detects the presence of a peer fabric interconnect, type y to add the new fi to the existing cluster. Cisco ucs 6200 series fabric interconnect overview. Electronics free delivery possible on eligible purchases. But we can add expansion modules to increase the number of uplink ports on the fabric interconnect or to add uplink fibre channel ports to the fabric interconnect. This provides ucs customers with higher bandwidth and more configuration options, so they can have higher.
Fabric interconnect io modules oracle fabric interconnect. Cisco ucs 6120xp fabric interconnect network management. Ucs 6248up licensing hello rjs, the ucs 6248up has 32 physical ports out of 32 ports 12 ports are pre licensed. Cisco announces new ucs fabric interconnect blades made. A vulnerability in the ssh management interface of the cisco unified computing system ucs 6200 series fabric interconnect series switch could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service dos condition because a fabric interconnect interface might not boot completely up or might have high cpu utilization. This third generation fabric interconnect enables a highperformance, low latency and lossless fabric architecture to address the requirements for deploying high capacity datacenters. Aug 07, 2017 my company is currently using cicso ucs system consist of 2 ucs 6248up fabric interconnect, 6 ucs c240 m4sx servers and its running simplivity hyper converged infrastructure vmware. The cisco ucs 6200 series fabric interconnect is a core part of the cisco unified computing system, providing both network connectivity and management capabilities for the system.
Cisco 6248 ucsfi6248up ucs fabric interconnect switch 2x. The cisco ucs 6248up 48port fabric interconnect is a core part of the cisco unified computing system. Console into the new fabric interconnect and run through the setup wizard. For network connectivity, gigabit ethernet modules are supported in either 1 gigabit per second or 10 gigabit per second bandwidths. Weights for the cisco ucs 6248up fabric interconnect components. This example shows how to display a list of fabric interconnect hardware. The unified ports allow the fabric interconnect to support direct connections from cisco ucs to fibre channel, fcoe, and small computer system interface over ip.
Upgrading cisco ucs fabric interconnects niktipss blog. Dec, 20 we unbox a cisco ucs 6248up fabric interconnect. Cisco ucs rebooting fabric interconnects davidring. You can expand it up to 48 ports by using expansion module ucsfie16up 16port expansion module in which out of 16 ports 8 ports are pre licensed. The cisco ucs 6296up 96port fabric interconnect is a 2ru 10gigabit ethernet, fcoe and native fibre channel switch offering up to 1920gbps throughput an d up to 96 ports. Access to networks and storage is then provided through the ucs fabric interconnect. The entire pod integrates a seamless network fabric for compute node and storage under single ip management. Disconnect the cables from the chassis fexes or fabric extenders to the subordinate fabric interconnect ports in slot 1 on the old fabric interconnect. Cisco ucs 6200 series fabric interconnect spec sheet. Cisco ucs 6248up 48port, 6296up 96port, 633216up, 6332, and 6324 fabric interconnects.
Lenovo flex system interconnect fabric product guide lenovo. Cisco fabric interconnect 6248 direct connect to emc vnx 5200 hello everyone, our workplace has recently lost its cisco engineer, and in the interim of looking for a replacement or upskilling another employee, were trying to get a half finished implementation complete. Specifications for the cisco ucs 6248up dc power supply ucspsu 6248updc cisco ucs 6248up fabric interconnect. Mar 03, 2015 disconnect the cables from the chassis fexes or fabric extenders to the subordinate fabric interconnect ports in slot 1 on the old fabric interconnect. Connect to your fabric interconnect just like you did in the top example, and enter the local management. Also, different io modules will be connected to network, storage, and other resources depending on the type of module, for more information, see connecting to. Access product specifications, documents, downloads, visio stencils, product images, and community content. Typically deployed in redundant pairs, the cisco ucs 6248up fabric interconnects provide uniform access to both networks and storage. In otherwords, ports are not unified in this series. In a cluster configuration that provides high availability and includes servers with vnics that are configured for failover, traffic fails over to the other fabric interconnect and no interruption occurs.
For more information, see connecting to client servers. Cisco ucs 6248up fabric interconnect with 3rd party hardware. Cisco ucsfi6248up ucs fabric interconnect switch 2 x. This provides the shortest cabling path from the chassis fex. Im looking to find out if there is an option for reverse airflow on the cisco 6248 fabric interconnect. Prerequisites cisco ucs has a pair of fabric interconnects which work in an activepassive mode from a control plane perspective. Fabric interconnect a end host mode fabric interconnect b end host mode production vlan 1020 backup vlan 3040 10 20 11,15,17 vlan 10,30 1 20,3040 2. Cisco ucs 6120xp 20port fabric interconnect 1ru n10s6100. Cisco announces new ucs fabric interconnect blades made simple. First, label the cables in the failed fi fabric interconnect so you know where they go in the new one. This will give you a bunch of output, but there is one part that you are interested in more than anything else. Fabric failover is a unique capability found only in cisco ucs that allows a server adapter to have a highly available connection to two redundant network switches without any nic teaming drivers or any nic failover configuration required in the os, hypervisor, or virtual machine.
Jul 27, 2014 this month cisco announced a new addition to the ucs family a mini fabric interconnect, called the ucs 6324 fabric interconnect, which unlike the ones before it plugs directly into the ucs 5108 chassis. This month cisco announced a new addition to the ucs family a mini fabric interconnect, called the ucs 6324 fabric interconnect, which unlike the ones before it plugs directly into the ucs 5108 chassis. Cisco ucs b200 m5 blade server data sheet cnet content. Replacing a failed 6248xp fabric interconnect ballblog.
Power specifications for the cisco ucs 5108 blade server chassis. One key object in the whole chain is the fabric interconnect which connects the chassis, used storage and uplinks to datacenter switches like the nexus 5000 series. So that the beast that is the fiber interconnect management consolidation on a super high performance fabric. Torson smt connector for upper slot header interconnect. Cisco ucsfi6248up ucs fabric interconnect switch 2 x psu. Cisco ucs 6248up fabric interconnect switch 32 ports managed rackmountable overview and full product specs on cnet. Step 7 connect these cables into the corresponding ports on slot 1 of one of the new cisco ucs 6248 up fabric interconnects, using the connection records to preserve the port mapping and the. This would only happen if the attack occurred while a reload. How to replace failed 6200 series cisco ucs fi published by craig on june 5, 2015. The product is awesome but we have many unused supermicros servers that we would like to add to the cluster as a standard esxi host. The new fabric interconnect 6454 series adds to our successful cisco ucs 6300 series fabric interconnects and ucs 6200 series fabric interconnects to deploy 102540100 gigabit ethernet and fcoe, and support for 32 gigabit fibre channel. Cisco ucs 6200 series fabric interconnects data sheet cisco. Cisco ucs 6248 fabric interconnect unboxing youtube.
My company is currently using cicso ucs system consist of 2 ucs 6248up fabric interconnect, 6 ucs c240 m4sx servers and its running simplivity hyper converged infrastructure vmware. How to replace a failed cisco fabric interconnect in a cluster. Jul 05, 2011 connect to your fabric interconnect just like you did in the top example, and enter the local management. Cisco ucs 6324 fabric interconnect data sheet cisco.
When you are designing a cisco ucs unified computing environment you will use several components which will work together. Hello all, we are in stage of interconnecting single ibm v3700 san box with dual fi 6248 redundant via single cisco mds 9000 san switch with single ucs 5108 chasis. Once the cluster enters a ha ready status, make fib the primary switch in order to reboot fia. Nov 08, 2011 fixed modulethe fabric interconnect reboots. The cisco ucs 6296up 96port fabric interconnect is a 2ru 10gigabit ethernet, fcoe and native fibre channel switch offering up to 1920gbps throughput an d. Cisco ucs 6200 series fabric interconnect hardware. 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.
The cisco ucs 6200 series offers linerate, lowlatency, lossless 10 gigabit ethernet and fiber channel over ethernet fcoe functions. Aug 15, 2018 the new fabric interconnect 6454 series adds to our successful cisco ucs 6300 series fabric interconnects and ucs 6200 series fabric interconnects to deploy 102540100 gigabit ethernet and fcoe, and support for 32 gigabit fibre channel. Next time i will discuss the fabric extenders, the hardware component that links the fabric interconnect to the ucs 5108blade server chassis or the rack mount servers. Cisco ucs has a pair of fabric interconnects which work in an activepassive mode from a control plane perspective. Cisco ucs 6454 54port fabric interconnect figure 3 is a onerackunit 1ru 102540100 gigabit. Configuring the fabric interconnect ports fc vs ethernet. The cisco ucs 6200 series offers linerate, lowlatency, lossless 10 gigabit ethernet and. Its the easiest way to ensure they are back in the right place after you replace the fi.
Cisco ucs 6248up 48port fabric interconnect front view. In this blog post we will go through the process of upgrading 6100 fabric interconnects to 6200 by using 6120 and 6248 as an example. The cisco ucs 6324 fabric interconnect hosts and runs cisco ucs manager in a highly available configuration, enabling the fabric interconnects to fully manage all cisco ucs elements. Ciscoucs6248upfabric interconnect chassis theciscoucs6248upchassisis1ru,1. Fabric interconnect chassis components oracle fabric. Jun 05, 2014 when you are designing a cisco ucs unified computing environment you will use several components which will work together. Fabric interconnect io modules fabric interconnects have different models of io modules that provide connectivity to network and storage resources. Data sheet cisco ucs 6200 series fabric interconnects cisco unified computing system overview the cisco unified computing system cisco ucs is a nextgeneration data center platform that unites computing, networking, storage access, and virtualization resources into a cohesive system designed to reduce. The cisco ucs 6200 series offers linerate, lowlatency, lossless 10 gigabit ethernet, fiber channel over ethernet fcoe, and fiber channel functions. Cisco ucs fabric interconnect port licensing explained. The new cisco ucs 6300 series fabric interconnect leverages our key technology differentiators ucs fabric, the virtual interface card vic and ucs manager. Fi is provides the lansan connectivity, management to the chassis. Installation and basic config below youll find stepbystep instructions on setting up a cisco ucs environment for the first time. Oh did i mention that you are in a hurry because you are going to have to sift through pages and pages of pdfs to get the information.
Jun 05, 2015 how to replace failed 6200 series cisco ucs fi published by craig on june 5, 2015. Ethernet, fcoe and fiber channel switch offering up to 3. The rear of the fabric interconnect where the hot air comes out has the slots for the sfps 10gb, 1gb, fc. For ucs 62xx fis, you consume a port license for every blade chassis port and every network and fc uplink. Cisco ucs 6248 unified port configuration jeremy waldrops blog. Mar 17, 2016 in this blog post we will go through the process of upgrading 6100 fabric interconnects to 6200 by using 6120 and 6248 as an example. With connectivity for up to 15 servers 8 blade servers and up to 7 directconnect rack servers, the 6324 is. Now it would stand to reason that since a 6248 is just a fancy nexus 5548 and i know that they do make reverse airflow psus and fans for those it would stand to reason that the same would be available for the 6248 but for the life of me i cant find.