What is a Cisco fabric?

Cisco Unified Fabric, consisting of the Cisco Nexus® Family, Cisco MDS 9000 Family, and Layer 4 through 7 services, provides a flexible and comprehensive data center networking solution that delivers intelligent and high-performing network services to servers, storage, and applications.

What is Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect?

The UCS fabric interconnect is a core part of Cisco’s 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.

How do I set up fabric interconnect?

Copy the web link from the prompt into a supported web browser and go to the Cisco UCS Manager GUI launch page. On the Cisco UCS Manager GUI launch page, select Express Setup. On the Express Setup page, select Initial Setup and click Submit. In the Cluster and Fabric Setup Area, select the Standalone Mode option.

What is Cisco UCS 6248UP?

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.

What is an ACI fabric?

A fabric is a fancy term for how the computing, network, and software components of a data center are laid out.

What is a fabric in network?

A network fabric describes the network topology in which components pass data to each other through interconnecting switches. A network fabric consists of hubs, switches, adapter endpoints, and the connecting cables that support a communication protocol between devices.

What does fabric Interconnect do?

The Unified Computing System (UCS) Fabric Interconnect (FI) is a core part of the design to improve scalability and reduce the total cost of ownership of data centers. Through integrating all components into a single platform, the system acts as a single unit which simplifies management.

What is the role of fabric interconnect?

The Fabric Interconnect (FI) is the core component of a UCS solution, providing network, storage, and unified management capabilities to servers. Fabric Interconnects are typically configured as highly available clustered pairs in production environments and provide active-active data traffic.

How do I change the IP address on my Cisco Fabric Interconnect?

To change IP for fabric interconnects, login to either one via console:

  1. UCS-A# scope fabric-interconnect a.
  2. UCS-A /fabric-interconnect # set out-of-band ip netmask gw.
  3. Repeat for the second fabric interconnect.

How do I backup my Cisco Fabric Interconnect configuration?

Running a Backup Operation

  1. In the Navigation pane, click the Admin tab.
  2. Click the All node.
  3. In the Work pane, click the General tab.
  4. In the Actions area, click Backup Configuration.
  5. In the Backup Operations table of the Backup Configuration dialog box, click the backup operation that you want to run.

How do I reset my Cisco Fabric Interconnect?

In some rare cases, if it is required to reboot Fabric Interconnect, use the following procedure:

  1. Log in to Fabric Interconnect using SSH.
  2. Issue the following two commands: FI # connect local-mgmt FI # reboot.

What are the different kinds of UCS servers available?

The computing component of the UCS is available in two versions: the B-series (a powered chassis and full and/or half slot blade servers), and the C-series for 19-inch racks (that can be used with fabric interconnects).