Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect (FI)

October 5, 2022

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS X-Series – 100G Unified Fabric for storage

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Only Cisco unifies networking and computing in a way that works for both server and network admins. We provide scale, aggregation, and manageability in a way that simplifies operations for IT. Unified Fabric provides both CapEx and OpEx benefits that help your company.

September 28, 2022

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Cisco UCS X-Series – 100G end-to-end networking

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Today, only Cisco UCS X-Series supports 100Gbps end-to-end in a modular server form factor.In UCS X-Series, all the networking components are 100 Gbps.  Deploying a 100G solution not only makes bandwidth intensive applications perform well but gives you flexibility in how that bandwidth is used.

April 20, 2022

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Cisco UCS Unified Fabric now 100Gb end-to-end for X-Series

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Since 2009, Cisco UCS Unified Fabric—with data, storage, and management traffic on a single cable—has been a key differentiator for UCS servers in the industry. This simplified server and networking infrastructure now becomes a low latency, end-to-end solution for your applications and user experience.

August 15, 2018

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Fast & Flexible – New 4th Gen Fabric Interconnect and VIC

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  Today, guest blogger Nikul Sheth, Sr. Product Manager for Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect writes about our new 4th gen fabric. Our next evolution of Cisco UCS Fabric provides...

February 9, 2016

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Fast and Flexible – New Third Generation Fabric Interconnect

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Guest Blogger: Nikul Sheth, Product Manager for Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect One of the things I admire about great athletes is they are both fast and flexible. This combination makes them more agile and gives them a competitive edge. Our next evolution of Cisco UCS Fabric provides customers with greater speed and flexibility to help […]

February 5, 2016

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Keeping It Simple While Keeping It Fresh

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When you read the headline, you may think this blog is about a new restaurant or cuisine, but this post is about UCS management. The description may not sound like it has much to do with software, but stay with me. One of the challenges you encounter when you have more than 50,000 customers and hundreds of […]

February 2, 2016

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Cisco UCS Innovations: Leverage the Power of Unification, Performance and Scalability

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Cisco leads the industry with a Unified, Application-centric approach to computing. Building on the architectural foundations, partnerships, and rapid customer adoption of UCS,  today Cisco introduces innovations inspired by customer requirements in two key Data Center technology areas: Cisco MDS, UCS and Nexus portfolio Innovations: To help customers grow, consolidate, converge and to adapt to […]

October 15, 2013

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How to get more SAN mileage out of UCS FI?

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  Mileage (miles per gallon) is one of the important criteria while buying any automobile and once bought, it is highly desirable to hit the maximum advertised mileage without significantly changing the driving habits or the routes (highway vs city mpg). Well, I have not been able to achieve that yet, so being a geek, I focused my […]

July 19, 2013

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Cisco UCS Outperforms HP and IBM Blade Servers on East-West Latency

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Virtualization, Private Cloud, Big Data, HPC, etc. have been steadily changing the landscape of data center architectures. Lower latency and higher performing server-to-server data traffic (East-West) have become key discussion points as customers look to modernize their infrastructures.  Cisco specifically designed UCS unified fabric for this type of traffic to create a highly-available infrastructure with […]