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Tag Archive 'FEX'

Rumour? New 8 Port Cisco Fabric Extender for UCS

Posted in Cisco on Apr 12th, 2010

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 [...]

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

Posted in Cisco on Oct 28th, 2009

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 [...]

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