Port Breakout - Cisco UCS 6500 Series Installation Manual

Connecting the Fabric Interconnect
Port Configuration
The following table shows the port types that can be configured. For port type definitions, see the preceding
section.
Chassis Port
1 through 32
9 and 10
1 through 36
33 through 36

Port Breakout

Port breakout is supported with the following configurations.
Port Speed Supported Port Type
10G/25G/40G/100G Native Ethernet
1G Native Ethernet
25G/40G/100G Native Ethernet
8G/16G/32G Native FC
100G/40G/10G/25G Native Ethernet
Cisco UCS 6500 Series Fabric Interconnect Hardware Installation Guide
Port Breakout
• Ethernet Uplink Port
• FCoE uplink port
• Appliance port
(EHM only)
• Monitor Port
Ethernet Uplink Port
Server Ports
• FC uplink port
• FC Storage port
Note All 4 FC
Breakout Ports
of a QSFP port
must be
configured at
32G, 16G, or
8G. So, in
other words,
FC breakout
ports of the
same QSFP
port cannot
have different
speeds.
• Ethernet Uplink Port
• Server port
• FCoE uplink port
• Appliance port
(EHM only)
• Monitor Port
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