Cisco Ucs 5108 Server Chassis Installation Guide - Cisco UCS 5108 Installation Manual

Overview
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Figure 15: Cisco UCS 2204XP FEX
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Cisco UCS 2200 Series FEXes bring the unified fabric into the blade server enclosure, providing 10 Gigabit
Ethernet connections between blade servers and the fabric interconnect, simplifying diagnostics, cabling, and
management.
The Cisco UCS 2200 Series extends the I/O fabric between the fabric interconnects and the Cisco UCS 5100
Series Blade Server Chassis, enabling a lossless and deterministic Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) fabric
to connect all blades and chassis together. Because the FEX is similar to a distributed line card, it does not
do any switching and is managed as an extension of the fabric interconnects. This approach removes switching
from the chassis, reducing overall infrastructure complexity and enabling the Cisco Unified Computing System
to scale to many chassis without multiplying the number of switches needed, reducing TCO and allowing all
chassis to be managed as a single, highly available management domain.
Connection ports (to the fabric interconnect)
Fabric extender status indicator LED
Link status indicator LEDs
Connection ports (to the fabric
interconnect)
Cisco UCS 2200 Series FEXes
4 Captive screws for the insertion latches
5 HDMI console connector for use by
Cisco service technicians

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