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Cisco Unified Fabric provides the foundational connectivity and unifies storage, data
PHYSICAL LOGICAL Adapter FEX VIRTUAL VM-FEX
networking and network services delivering architectural flexibility and consistent
networking across physical, virtual and cloud environment, enabling convergence,
Cisco Nexus 2248TP
network scale, virtualization awareness, and intelligence through the industry-leading Cisco Nexus 5596UP
Cisco NX-OS. Cisco Nexus 2232PP
As a key component to Cisco Unified Fabric, Cisco Fabric Extender Technology Cisco Nexus 2248PQ
comprises of technologies that enable fabric extensibility with simplified management Cisco Nexus 2232TM
Cisco Nexus 7000,
enabling the switching access layer to extend and expand all the way to the server 6000, 5000 and Cisco Nexus B22
hypervisor as the customer’s business grows. UCS Fabric interconnect
UCS I/O Module
Based on IEEE 802.1BR Logical NIC VMs
Challenges
Today’s trends are moving toward data center consolidation, virtualization, cloud Cisco UCS 2200 Series Fabric Extenders
services, and high-performance computing. Customers face the need for better The Cisco UCS 2200 Series extends the Cisco FEX Technology to Cisco Unified
utilization of compute and network resources like efficient usage of cabling, 10 Gigabit Computing System™ blade servers. The Cisco UCS 2200 Series Fabric Extenders
Ethernet bandwidth utilization, and increased costs to maintain and manage the together with the Cisco UCS 6200 Series Fabric Interconnects form a similar parent
network, server adapters, cables, and power. switch and line card architecture to deliver scalability.
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At-A-Glance
Architectural flexibility
FEX Technology enables support for multiple architectures be it physical, virtual or
cloud. It enables the architecture to scale as the business grows with increased
number of applications, virtual machines and servers.
Fabric Extensibility
FEX Technology delivers a consistent homogeneous server access architecture to
extend and scale the fabric as the datacenter grows. This technology can support
more than 1500 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports and 1000 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports, all
managed from single parent switch acting as a single point of management.
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