The Cisco UCS 6454 Fabric Interconnect supported 8 unified ports (ports 1 - 8) with Cisco UCS Manager
4.0(1) and 4.0(2), but with release 4.0(4) and later it supports 16 unified ports (ports 1 - 16).
Note
The Cisco UCS 6454 Fabric Interconnect supports:
• maximum of 8 FCoE port channels
• or 4 SAN Ports
• or maximum of 8 SAN port channels and FCoE port channels (4 each)
The Cisco UCS 6454 Fabric Interconnect also has one network management port, one console port for setting
the initial configuration, and one USB port for saving or loading configurations. The FI also includes L1/L2
ports for connecting two fabric interconnects for high availability.
The Cisco UCS 6454 Fabric Interconnect also contains a CPU board that consists of:
• Intel Xeon D-1528 v4 Processor, 1.6 GHz
• 64 GB of RAM
• 8 MB of NVRAM (4 x NVRAM chips)
• 128 GB SSD (bootflash)
Figure 1: Cisco UCS 6454 Fabric Interconnect Rear View
Ports 17-44 (10/25 Gbps Ethernet or FCoE)
When using Cisco UCS Manager
releases earlier than 4.0(4), ports
9-44 are 10/25 Gbps Ethernet or
FCoE.
Note
2Ports 1-16 (Unified Ports 10/25 Gbps
Ethernet or FCoE or 8/16/32 Gbps Fibre
Channel)
When using Cisco UCS
Manager releases earlier than
4.0(4), only ports 1-8 are
Unified Ports.
Note
1
Uplink Ports 49-54 (40/100 Gbps Ethernet
or FCoE)
Each of these ports can be 4 x 10/25 Gbps
Ethernet or FCoE uplink ports when using
an appropriate breakout cable.
4Ports 45-48 (1/10/25 Gbps Ethernet or
FCoE)
3
For additional information about the port groups, see Port Speeds and Types, on page 6.
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