Introduction to Fabric Interconnect port types

By default, all Fabric Interconnect ports are unconfigured. Fabric Interconnect ports can be in the following states:

• Unconfigured: Port is not configured and cannot be used.
• Server port: Port is configured for southbound connection to an IOM Fabric Extender (FEX) module in a blade chassis.
• Uplink port: Port is configured for northbound connection to the upstream Ethernet switch. Uplink ports are always configured as trunk ports.
• Disabled: Port is configured either as an uplink or server port and is currently disabled by the administrator.

Note

For the 6200 series FI, all ports are unified ports; hence all the ports can also be configured as 1/10 Gig Ethernet, FC, FC uplink, appliance port, or FCoE port. For the 6300 series, FC configurations are only available with expansion module ports with 6332-16UP model.

To define, change, or check the state of a port, expanding the Fabric Interconnect inventory from the Equipment tab in the navigation pane,...