support of UCS P81E in third-party servers

[h.jetelova]

Hi there,

is it possible to use UCS P81E (N2XX-ACPCI01=) with other servers than UCS C-series? If so, is there any compatibilty list of supported vendors or server types?

Cheers,

Helena

[Manish Tandon]

Helena

PE81 is only supported in the C-series servers.

I believe there are no plans to qualify them in other vendor servers.

Thanks

--Manish

[mta2891974]

Hi,

but it's clearly mentioned in the datasheet that it's supported in third-party servers that support IEEE802.1Qbh capable adapter!

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9670/data_sheet_c78-657397.html

the offering can now be expanded outside a Cisco UCS environment to third-party server vendors that support IEEE 802.1Qbh-capable adapters.

[smcquerr]

The datasheet referenced her descibes Adapter-FEX the reference is specific to that technology.  It states:

"...An ecosystem of adapter vendors is now about to  support this technology using the IEEE 802.1Qbh standard, the first  vendor being Cisco itself, with the Cisco UCS P81E VIC (Figure 2),  designed for use with Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers. Other  adapter vendors will soon follow, providing adapters that support this  capability. Both Cisco Nexus 5500 platform and the Cisco Nexus 2000  Series Fabric Extenders support the Adapter FEX technology across a  variety of adapter platforms. Therefore, the offering can now be  expanded outside a Cisco UCS environment to third-party server vendors  that support IEEE 802.1Qbh-capable adapters."

This means that you could use a third-party adapter such as the Broadcom 57712 which is IEEE 802.1Qbh (prestandard IEEE 802.1Qbr) capable to configure Adapter-FEX in a Cisco or Non-Cisco server.

As Manish mentions, the P81E is only supported in the C-Series servers and there are currently no immediate plans to qualify it with other third party servers.

Steve McQuerry

UCS - Technical Marketing

[h.jetelova]

Thx