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Cisco UCS X-Series Direct Fabric Interconnect 9108 100G
Overview
The Cisco UCS X-Series Direct Fabric Interconnect 9108 100G (UCSX-S9108-100G) is a modular fabric
interconnect system designed for the Cisco UCS X9508 server chassis. The Cisco UCS X-Series Direct Fabric
Interconnect 9108 100G ("fabric interconnect" or "fabric interconnect module" in this document) is part of
the overall Cisco UCS X-Series Direct solution, which consists of the fabric interconnect plus additional Cisco
equipment that enables end-to-end connectivity.
Deployed in pairs, the fabric interconnect offers robust and scalable networking, compute, storage, and GPU
acceleration in a smaller physical form factor that can replace a standalone Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect.
The fabric interconnect module is designed for cost, power, and physical space savings in less extensive
applications, for example:
• at the network edge
• deployments of up to 8 blade servers or compute nodes.
The X-Series Direct supports the following:
• Eight QSFP ports (1 through 8) capable of up to 100 Gbps including two unified ports (1 and 2).
• CPU: Intel Atom
• Uplink Ports: Total of eight physical ports that can be configured as a mix of Fibre Channel and Ethernet
Cisco UCS X-Series Direct Fabric Interconnect 9108 100G Overview, on page 1
Fabric Interconnect Front Panel, on page 2
Port Type Details, on page 5
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C3000 processor series System on a Chip (SOC), 2.2 GHz, 8 cores. One CPU is
supported per UCS X-Series Direct Fabric Interconnect.
to connect to ToR switches. The first two ports are unified ports to provide flexibility between Fibre
Channel and Gigabit Ethernet, and 6 ports are dedicated Ethernet.
• Fibre Channel: A maximum of two uplinks configured through total of 8 break-out ports supporting
either 8, 16 or 32 Gbps each fibre-channel ports. Fibre Channel ports support breakout to a maximum
of eight ports, four breakout ports for each physical FC port.
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