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Cisco SFS 7024 Hardware Users Guide
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Product OverviewThe Cisco SFS 7024™ is an industry leading modular system used for creating large, single-system
Grid/Cluster server fabrics, or as a building block for larger fabrics. The SFS 7024 is designed to
maximize performance, streamline operations, and ensure uptime by providing full hardware and
software reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features.
Leveraging InfiniBand (IB) — an industry-standard interconnect — the SFS 7024 provides high
performance, offering a full bisectional bandwidth (FBB) fabric (10Gb-30Gb) and ultra-low switching
latency.
All major SFS 7024 components and expansion modules are field replaceable and hot pluggable. To
allow easy scaling, the SFS 7024 provides 24 expansion slots. Each slot can support expansion modules
with twelve 10 Gbit/sec (or 4X) IB ports, meaning the SFS 7024 can scale to 288 (4X) InfiniBand ports.
The SFS 7000 Series switches make possible the highest density of InfiniBand fabrics available today.
SFS 7024 Feature Set
Strategic Benefits
• Creates the industry’s simplest way to build medium to large server fabrics
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Modular systems up to 288 ports (4X)
• Eliminates requirement for parallel storage networks
• High-availability design for mission critical needs
• Lowers Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Key Design Features
• All field-replaceable units (FRU’s) can be replaced while under power
• Redundant management, power and cooling
• High performance 10Gb/s
• Full Bisectional Bandwidth InfiniBand switching fabric
• Twenty-four (24) expansion slots for InfiniBand (4X)
• Embedded system management