What is the use of fabric extender?
Cisco FEX, or Fabric Extender technology makes the central part of Cisco’s data center strategy. With its Nexus 2000 FEXes as the representative, Cisco FEX functions to extend the switching fabric of the core and aggregated switches – Nexus 5000/7000 series switches.
What is Fex HIF port?
Host Interface (HIF): Front panel port on FEX, connecting to server. Logical interface (LIF): Presentation of a front panel port in parent switch.
What is 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.
What does a Cisco fabric extender do?
As a key component to Cisco Unified Fabric, Cisco Fabric Extender Technology comprises of technologies that enable fabric extensibility with simplified management enabling the switching access layer to extend and expand all the way to the server hypervisor as the customer’s business grows.
What is fabric interconnect in UCS?
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.
How do I install a Cisco Nexus fabric extender?
How to Set Up Cisco Nexus Fabric Extender
- Rack the FEX. The official Cisco documentation demonstrates racking a FEX in a four-post rack, using the supplied rack ears and rail slides.
- Install & cable the uplinks.
- Configure a virtual port-channel and add physical interfaces.
- Apply the code below to both 5Ks.