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Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnect Hardware Installation Guide
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Connecting the Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric
Interconnect
The Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnect provides the following types of ports:
• RS-232 port—create a local management connection.
• Ethernet ports, encrypted and unencrypted—to connect to a LAN.
• Fibre Channel ports—connect to a SAN.
This chapter includes the following sections:
• Preparing for Network Connections, page 3-1
• Connecting to the Console Port, page 3-1
• Connecting to the Ethernet Connector Port, page 3-3
• Connecting to an Ethernet Port, page 3-3
• Connecting to a Fibre Channel Port, page 3-7
Preparing for Network Connections
When preparing your site for network connections to the Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnect,
consider the following for each type of interface, and gather all the required equipment before
connecting the ports:
• Cabling required for each interface type
• Distance limitations for each signal type
• Additional interface equipment required
Connecting to the Console Port
The console port is an RS-232 port with an RJ-45 interface. (See Figure 3-1.) The console port is an
asynchronous (async) serial port; any device connected to this port must be capable of asynchronous
transmission.
We recommend using this port to create a local management connection to set the IP address and other
initial configuration settings before connecting the system to the network for the first time.
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