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Cisco UCS Manager
The Cisco UCS 6200 Series hosts and runs Cisco UCS Manager in a highly available configuration, enabling the
fabric interconnects to fully manage all Cisco UCS elements. Connectivity to the Cisco UCS 5100 Series blade
chassis is maintained through the Cisco UCS 2100 or 2200 Series Fabric Extenders in each blade chassis. The
Cisco UCS 6200 Series interconnects support out-of-band management through a dedicated 10/100/1000-Mbps
Ethernet management port as well as in-band management. Cisco UCS Manager typically is deployed in a
clustered active-passive configuration on redundant fabric interconnects connected through dual 10/100/1000
Ethernet clustering ports.
Optimization for Virtualization
For virtualized environments, the Cisco UCS 6200 Series supports Cisco virtualization-aware networking and
Cisco Data Center Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) architecture. Cisco Data Center VM-FEX allows the
interconnects to provide policy-based virtual machine connectivity, with network properties moving with the virtual
machine, and a consistent operational model for both physical and virtual environments.
Cisco UCS 6248UP 48-Port Fabric Interconnect
The Cisco UCS 6248UP 48-Port Fabric Interconnect (Figure 3) is a one-rack-unit (1RU) 10 Gigabit Ethernet, FCoE
and Fiber Channel switch offering up to 960-Gbps throughput and up to 48 ports. The switch has 32 1/10-Gbps
fixed Ethernet, FCoE and FC ports and one expansion slot.
Figure 3. Cisco UCS 6248UP 48-Port Fabric Interconnect
Cisco UCS 6296UP 96-Port Fabric Interconnect
The Cisco UCS 6296UP 96-Port Fabric Interconnect (Figure 4) is a 2RU 10 Gigabit Ethernet, FCoE and native
Fibre Channel switch offering up to 1920-Gbps throughput and up to 96 ports. The switch has 48 1/10-Gbps fixed
Ethernet, FCoE and Fiber Channel ports and three expansion slots.
Figure 4. Cisco UCS 6296UP 96-Port Fabric Interconnect
