Need a networking guru.

[IzzyMan]

Hello all,

I just got a Cisco Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis for a sweet deal and we are about to start buying some blades for it (We run gaming servers on VMware)

The problem is we only have a router with a 1 GB ethernet and after purchasing this blade I am finding that the Fabric Extender Modules (See Picture) do not seem to run just plain old ethernet. I am not an expert in +sfp and am hoping someone on here can look at these three IOMs and help me find a solution to run this to my cable router via ethernet. Can I just buy a +sfp 10Gb Ethernet module and slap it into the +sfp port? It would be cool to run a fiber connection to a storage server we have as well.

As you read, you can tell I only enough about this stuff to be dangerous lol, Please take it easy on me for my lack of knowledge. 

This is the IOM I am looking to buy:UCS-IOM-2208XP CISCO UCS 8-PORT 10GBE FABRIC EXTENDER EXPANSION MODULE
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265612222720?epid=150737616&hash=item3dd7b8e100:g:7d4AAOSwm2FiPOpf

[IzzyMan]

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-b-series-blade-servers/spec_sheet_c17-644224.pdf

This might be helpful for info.

[Lurick]

You are required to use a Fabric Interconnect if you want to use the UCS B-Series servers.

You'll probably want a 6200 or 6300 series Fabric Interconnect and then you configure an uplink from there to the rest of the network.

 

Edit:

Almost forgot there are 6324 Fabric Interconnects which slot right into the server though which would work as you want. Otherwise you're getting a FI which is kind of like a switch but not exactly and it needs an uplink to something else to route packets.

[IzzyMan]

4 hours ago, Lurick said:

You are required to use a Fabric Interconnect if you want to use the UCS B-Series servers.

You'll probably want a 6200 or 6300 series Fabric Interconnect and then you configure an uplink from there to the rest of the network.

 

Edit:

Almost forgot there are 6324 Fabric Interconnects which slot right into the server though which would work as you want. Otherwise you're getting a FI which is kind of like a switch but not exactly and it needs an uplink to something else to route packets.

Thanks for the reply, Yes you do need an extender to use this blade on the network, unless you buy the KVM/USB cable for the front and use a USB to NIC adapter. Hope that is not a route we end up going.

The 6324 is not a viable option, the cost of just one is way more then 4 times the cost of the enclosure. 

What I was asking is about has more to do with +sfp transceivers and our normal Ethernet network. 

I think the solution we will probably go with is buying this switch and cable. Still researching if this will work for what we want. 
 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/225047978142?hash=item3465e7a09e:g:V7QAAOSwYEJivfRX
 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/164322728804?hash=item264265db64:g:4swAAOSwymhgOFYx&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA4JdQgKIJX1GSfuGLZ0VcVh8svI%2FxXKbK0mN56VpeHApnW0U3ShtRL4d7%2BmIbGa4E5aju71iVl%2FuFct5XDm5zc4pVh8OXYebwCFAb0%2FHWcFeHecW%2BklG4LGdLE0kwUYxUdBISBalUdpE47%2Fds0nvKfDcP6PQDZDMDjt6FoOvQ%2FBQVYQy0cZrNo3ra5vk4qmLr%2B3lrcaWb3PKfR%2FxqmL54T%2FhYzNr3KWfu8FPNsApS%2BGsAQQ5NFvW09%2FOwqWDuw7yU0C%2BJMbK2UqCiPEQaVnGxZnJogPyRSUlLIS2DqX%2FyiuRZ|tkp%3ABFBMirDyn71g

[IzzyMan]

Also we ended up buying these two extenders because the listing ended today and for the price it was not worth missing out on. 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/313425433548

[Lurick]

8 hours ago, IzzyMan said:

Thanks for the reply, Yes you do need an extender to use this blade on the network, unless you buy the KVM/USB cable for the front and use a USB to NIC adapter. Hope that is not a route we end up going.

The 6324 is not a viable option, the cost of just one is way more then 4 times the cost of the enclosure. 

What I was asking is about has more to do with +sfp transceivers and our normal Ethernet network. 

I think the solution we will probably go with is buying this switch and cable. Still researching if this will work for what we want. 
 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/225047978142?hash=item3465e7a09e:g:V7QAAOSwYEJivfRX
 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/164322728804?hash=item264265db64:g:4swAAOSwymhgOFYx&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA4JdQgKIJX1GSfuGLZ0VcVh8svI%2FxXKbK0mN56VpeHApnW0U3ShtRL4d7%2BmIbGa4E5aju71iVl%2FuFct5XDm5zc4pVh8OXYebwCFAb0%2FHWcFeHecW%2BklG4LGdLE0kwUYxUdBISBalUdpE47%2Fds0nvKfDcP6PQDZDMDjt6FoOvQ%2FBQVYQy0cZrNo3ra5vk4qmLr%2B3lrcaWb3PKfR%2FxqmL54T%2FhYzNr3KWfu8FPNsApS%2BGsAQQ5NFvW09%2FOwqWDuw7yU0C%2BJMbK2UqCiPEQaVnGxZnJogPyRSUlLIS2DqX%2FyiuRZ|tkp%3ABFBMirDyn71g

That's a fabric extender which is what you need, it will NOT function like a standard switch though, you will need something upstream to handle anything else, you cannot connect regular clients to it is the main point.