Cisco Systems Cisco SFS 7000P manual Hardware

Chapter 1 Product Overview

System Features

Hardware

The Cisco SFS 7000P switch features hot-swappable redundant power and cooling.

Ports

If any single InfiniBand port fails, none of the other ports will have interrupted service.

Fabric

For redundancy, InfiniBand host channel adapters can be dual-connected to a redundant pair of Cisco SFS 7000P switches.

In an InfiniBand fabric that includes more than one Cisco SFS 7000P switch, if the subnet manager on the Cisco SFS 7000P switch that is acting as the master fails, another subnet manager will take over within seconds. (See Figure 1-2.)

Figure 1-2 Example of Redundant Cisco SFS 7000P InfiniBand Fabric

IB Host 1 IB Host 2

InfiniBand

Chassis A

Cisco SFS 7000P)

HCA

HCA

EN mgmt

ports

Switch 1

HCA

HCA

EN mgmt

ports

InfiniBand

Chassis B

(Cisco SFS 7000P)

Switch 1

InfiniBand connections

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