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Port Speeds and Types

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Port Speeds and Types
Ports on the fabric interconnects are numbered and grouped according to their function. The ports are numbered
top to bottom and left to right. The following figures show the port numbering and define port speeds and the
types of ports that can be configured. For more information on how to configure the port modes, refer to
"Configuring Port Modes for a Fabric Interconnect" in the Cisco UCS Network Management Guide, Release
4.0.
Figure 5: Rear View of Cisco UCS 6454 FI, Port Numbers
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Ports 1–16.
Unified Ports can operate as 10/25
Gbps Ethernet or FCoE; or 8/16/32
Gbps Fibre Channel.
Port type in 8G/16G/32G FC mode: FC
uplink port
Port types in 10G/25G mode:
• FCoE uplink port
• Server port
• Appliance port (the FI must be in
Ethernet-End-Host mode)
• Monitor port
Note When using Cisco UCS
Manager releases earlier
than 4.0(4), only ports 1-8
are Unified Ports.
Cisco UCS 6454 FI
4
2 (AC/DC/HVDC available)
2 Ports 17–44.
Each port can operate as 10G/25G Ethernet.
Port types in 10G/25G mode:
• FCoE uplink port
• Server port
• Appliance port (the FI must be in
Ethernet-End-Host mode)
• Monitor port
Note When using Cisco UCS
Manager releases earlier than
4.0(4), ports 9-44 are 10/25
Gbps Ethernet or FCoE. (Only
ports 1-8 were Unified Ports in
earlier releases.)
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