The Cisco UCS 6300 Series Fabric Interconnects provide the management and communication backbone for the Cisco UCS B-Series and C-Series servers. All servers attached to the Cisco UCS 6300 Series Fabric Interconnects become part of a single, highly available management domain. In addition, by supporting unified fabric, the Cisco UCS 6300 Series provides both the LAN and SAN connectivity for all blades within its domain.
From a networking perspective, the Cisco UCS 6300 Series uses a cut-through architecture, supporting deterministic, low-latency, line-rate 40-Gigabit Ethernet on all ports, switching capacity of up to 2.56 Tbps, and 320-Gbps bandwidth per chassis, independent of packet size and enabled services. The product family supports Cisco® low-latency, lossless 40-Gigabit Ethernet unified network fabric capabilities, which increase the reliability, efficiency, and scalability of Ethernet networks. The fabric interconnect supports multiple traffic classes over a lossless Ethernet fabric from the blade through the interconnect.
The Cisco UCS 6332-16UP 40-Port Fabric Interconnect is a 1RU 10-GbE, 40-GbE, and native Fibre Channel switch offering up to 2.43-Tbps full-duplex throughput. The ports operate as follows:
- Ports 1—16 operate as SFP+ Universal Ports capable of operating at 1/10-Gbps fixed Ethernet or 4/8/16 Gbps Fibre Channel ports.
- Ports 17—34 operate as 40 Gbps QSFP+ ports or as 18 4 x 10 Gbps SFP+ breakout ports or can be optionally outfitted with QSA adapters to provide 10 Gbps operation.
- Ports 35—40 operate as fixed 40 Gbps QSFP+ ports.