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Rumour? New 8 Port Cisco Fabric Extender for UCS

Published on April 12, 2010 By Kevin Houston

I recently heard a rumour that Cisco was coming out with an 8 port Fabric Extender (FEX) for the UCS 5108, so I thought I’d take some time to see what this would look like.  NOTE: this is purely speculation, I have no definitive information from Cisco so this may be false info. Before we discuss [...]

Cisco's New Virtualized Adapter (aka "Palo")

Published on October 28, 2009 By Kevin Houston

Previously known as “Palo”, Cisco’s virtualized adapter allows for a server to split up the 10Gb pipes into numerous virtual pipes (see below) like multiple NICs or multiple Fibre Channel HBAs.  Although the card shown in the image to the left is a normal PCIe card, the initial launch of the card will be in [...]