UCS 228XP I/O Mod 8 Ext, 32 Int 1Gb Ports REMANUFACTURED
Cisco UCS 22 series Fabric Extender brings the unified fabric into the blade server enclosure, providing 8 Gigabit Ethernet connections between blade servers and the fabric interconnect, simplifying diagnostics, cabling, and management.
The Cisco UCS 22 series extends the I/O fabric, enabling a lossless and deterministic Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) fabric to connect all blades and chassis together. Since the fabric extender is similar to a distributed line card, it does not perform any switching and is managed as an extension of the fabric interconnects. This approach removes switching from the chassis, reducing overall infrastructure complexity and enabling the Cisco unified computing system to scale many chassis without multiplying the number of switches needed, reducing TCO and allowing all chassis to be managed as a single, highly available management domain. The Cisco UCS 22 series also manages the chassis environment (the power supply and fans as well as the blades) in conjunction with the fabric interconnect.
The Cisco UCS 228XP Fabric Extender has eight 1 Gigabit Ethernet, FCoE-capable, and enhances Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP+) ports that connect the blade chassis to the fabric interconnect. Cisco UCS 228XP has thirty-two 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports connected through the midplane to each half-width slot in the chassis. Typically configured in pairs for redundancy, two fabric extenders provide up to 16 Gbps of I/O to the chassis.