Cisco Nexus Fabric Extender

Cisco Nexus Fabric Extender

The Cisco Nexus B22 Blade Fabric Extender for HP (Cisco Nexus B22HP) provides an extension of the Cisco Nexus switch fabric to the HP server edge. Logically, it behaves like a remote line card to a parent Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch. The fabric extender and the parent Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch together form a distributed modular system. The Cisco Nexus B22HP forwards all traffic to the parent Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch over eight 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks. Low-cost uplink connections of up to 10 meters can be made with copper Twinax cable, and longer connections of up to 100 meters can use the Cisco Fabric Extender Transceiver (FET-10G). Standard 10-Gbps optics such as short reach (SR) and long reach (LR) are also supported. Downlinks to each server are auto negotiating for 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and work with all HP Ethernet and converged network adapter (CNA) mezzanines, allowing customers a choice of Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), or Small Computer System Interface over IP (iSCSI) connections. Because the Cisco Nexus B22 is a transparent extension of a Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch, traffic can be switched according to policies established by the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch with a single point of management.