Cisco UCS 6536 Fibre Channel Switch
36 Ports - 36 Fiber Channel Ports - 100 Gigabit EthernetQSFP28 - Manageable - Rack-mountable - 1U
About This Product
Overview
Cisco Unified Computing System overview
The Cisco Unified Computing System™(Cisco UCS®) is a next-generation data center platform that unites computing, networking, storage access, and virtualization resources into a cohesive system designed to reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and increase business agility. The system integrates a low-latency, lossless 10/25/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet unified network fabric with enterprise-class, x86-architecture servers. The system is an integrated, scalable, multichassis platform in which all resources participate in a unified management domain.
Product overview
The Cisco UCS 6536 Fabric Interconnect (FI) is a core part of the Cisco Unified Computing System, providing both network connectivity and management capabilities for the system (Figure 2). The Cisco UCS 6536 Fabric Interconnect offers line-rate, low-latency, lossless 10/25/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, NVMe over Fabric, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) functions.
The Cisco UCS 6536 Fabric Interconnect provides the communication backbone and management connectivity for the Cisco UCS X-Series compute nodes, UCS X9508 X-series chassis, UCS B-series blade servers, UCS 5108 B-series server chassis, and UCS C-series rack servers. All servers attached to a Cisco UCS 6536 Fabric Interconnect become part of a single, highly available management domain. In addition, by supporting a unified fabric, Cisco UCS 6536 Fabric Interconnect provides both LAN and SAN connectivity for all servers within its domain.
From a networking perspective, the Cisco UCS 6536 uses a cut-through architecture, supporting deterministic, low-latency, line-rate 10/25/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet ports, a switching capacity of 7.42 Tbps per FI and 14.84 Tbps per unified fabric domain, independent of packet size and enabled services. It enables 1600Gbps bandwidth per X9508 chassis with X9108-IFM-100G in addition to enabling end-to-end 100G ethernet and 200G aggregate bandwidth per X210c compute node. With the X9108-IFM-25G and the IOM 2408, it enables 400Gbps bandwidth per chassis per FI domain. The product family supports Cisco®low-latency, lossless 10/25/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet unified network fabric capabilities, which increases the reliability, efficiency, and scalability of Ethernet networks. The 6536 Fabric Interconnect supports multiple traffic classes over a lossless Ethernet fabric from the server through the fabric interconnect. Significant TCO savings come from the Unified Fabric optimized server design in which Network Interface Cards (NICs), Host Bus Adapters (HBAs), cables, and switches can be consolidated.
- Two power supplies (AC)
- Allows all elements connected to the interconnects to participate in a single, highly available management domain
- Decreases TCO by reducing the number of NICs, HBAs, switches, and cables required
- Support Fibre Channel and Ethernet traffic concurrently in a Unified Fabric
- Scales to 20 blade chassis without adding complexity by eliminating the need for dedicated chassis management and blade switches and by reducing the number of cables needed
- Provides deterministic latency for optimized application performance
- Provides high-speed, low-latency connectivity to the chassis
- Provides approximately 50 percent reduction in end-to-end system latency (Latency is less than 1 microsecond.)
- Provides a reliable, robust foundation for unifying LAN and SAN traffic on a single transport
- Simplifies management of multiple traffic flows over a single network link
Quick Specifications
- Product Model
- UCS 6536
- Product Type
- Fibre Channel Switch
- Total Number of Ports
- 36
- Number of Fibre Channel Ports
- 36
- Ethernet Technology
- 100 Gigabit Ethernet
- Expansion Slot Type
- QSFP28
- Manageable
- Yes
- Hot Swappable Power Supply
- Yes