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.
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, follow these steps:
- Log into UCS Manager.
- Click on the Equipment tab in the navigation pane.
- In the Equipment tab click on Fabric Interconnect A and expand the ports.
- Click a port, and its current configuration will be displayed in the right-hand side working pane.
- Right-click on a port and select a new configuration for the port from the pop-up menu.
- Ports can be enabled or disabled from the menu as well:
The other option to configure the ports is the LAN Uplinks Manger tool, which can be accessed using the following steps:
- Log into UCS Manager.
- Click on the Equipment tab in the navigation pane.
- In the Equipment tab, click on Fabric Interconnect A.
- In the work area pane, select LAN Uplinks Manager.
LAN Uplinks Manager is a pop-up pane that can be used to configure LAN configurations from a single view, which are otherwise configured from different tabs in the navigation and work panes. LAN Uplinks Manager shows all the ports in various categories. Ports can be configured, enabled, and disabled. Ethernet Port Channels, VLANs, Pin Groups, and QoS policies can be created and assigned. Ethernet related Events, Faults, and FSM status can also be viewed using the tab available at the top in LAN Uplinks Manager.
- The LAN Uplinks Manager user interface is as shown in the following screenshot:
