Cisco 6324 is embedded into the Cisco UCS 5108 blade server chassis. The 6324 Fabric Interconnect integrates the functions of a Fabric Interconnect and Fabric Extender and provides LAN, SAN, and management connectivity to blade servers and rack servers with embedded UCS Manager. 1G/10G SFP+ ports will be used for external network and SAN connectivity, while 40 Gig QSPF can only be used for connecting another chassis, rack server, and storage. One or two Cisco UCS 6324 FIs can be installed in UCS Mini.

The following are the features of the 6324:

• A maximum of 20 blade/rack servers per UCS domain
• Four 1 Gig/10 Gig SFP+ unified ports
• One 40 Gig QSFP
• Fabric throughput of 500 Gbps