Cisco Unified Fabric

The product Cisco Unified Fabric - one of pillars of Cisco Unified Data Center. Unified Fabric allows to provide convergence of computing environment, scaling of network, and virtualization and intellectuality by means of Cisco NX-OS.

Cisco Unified Fabric integrates storage and a data network providing transparency of interrelations, multidimensional scalability and complexity of construction.

Unified Fabric allows to simplify network management of DPC which integrates local networks and storage area networks using technologies Data Center Bridging (DCB), Fibre Channel through Ethernet (FCoE) and Unified Ports.

The solution Cisco Unified Fabric delivers intellectual services directly in structure of network. It is transparent expands network covering all sections on unified open environment with the stable level of service and the politician. Such approach implements:

• creation of constantly available services for all applications and workloads
• automatic scaling of opportunities of the provided service
• the accelerated deployment of applications on the basis of defined the politician, but not depending on physical change of infrastructure

The architecture of Cisco Unified Fabric unifies storage resources, computing and network systems and also management systems. It simplifies work of data processing centers, eliminates in DPCs barriers between networks of storage and data networks and cuts down expenses.

Enter into the Cisco Unified Fabric family:

• the Cisco switches Nexus for data processing centers;
• the Cisco switches MDS 9000 for networks of storage;
• management system for DPC networks of Cisco DCNM;
• Cisco NX-OS operating system;
• management system for the Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) applications;
• Cisco ASA1000V routers;
• virtual gateway of security Cisco Virtual Security Gateway (VSG);
• module of the network analysis Cisco Network Analysis Module (NAM);
• Cisco NetFlow Generation 3000 devices.

Let's note that Cisco Unified Fabric supports dynamic management of IT resources in the physical, virtual and cloud area networks using a flexible and scalable network architecture. This architecture helps to adapt to new technology trends, such as Big Data, cloud computing, mobility of employees and universal distribution of video quicker.