Proper Fex And Fabric Interconnect Port Connectivity - Cisco UCS 5108 Installation Manual

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Linking a chassis to two fabric-port-channel port groups does not affect the VIF namespace unless it is
Caution
manually acknowledged. The VIF namespace is then automatically set to the smaller size fabric port-channel
port group usage (either 63 or 118 VIFs) of the two groups.
For high availability cluster-mode applications, we strongly recommend symmetric cabling configurations.
If the cabling is asymmetric, the maximum number of VIFs available is the smaller of the two cabling
configurations.
For more information on the maximum number of VIFs for your Cisco UCS environment, see the Configuration
Limits document for your hardware and software configuration.

Proper FEX and Fabric Interconnect Port Connectivity

The following illustrations are for example only; you do not need to skip available ports to provide future
Note
expansion room. See the UCS Manager configuration guide for FI port configuration considerations and
limitations.
Observe the following guidelines:
• When you connect the server chassis to the fabric interconnect, do not connect the FEXes to the fabric
• All ports of a FEX must be connected to only one fabric interconnect. You must connect each fabric
• If you need to connect to a second fabric interconnect, do the following:
interconnect's expansion modules. While similar in appearance to the other ports on the fabric interconnect,
the expansion modules are never used for direct chassis connections. They are typically used for SAN
connectivity or network uplink.
interconnect to the chassis through its own FEX.
◦ The chassis must have a second FEX installed.
◦ All ports of the second FEX must be connected to the second fabric interconnect only because the
FEX is a fabric extender, which can only be connected to a single switch, or in this case, a fabric
interconnect.
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