As many of you know I am now in full CCIE Datacenter study mode, and as such have not had as much time to blog and answer posted questions as I would like. However I felt compelled to take a break from my studies to write a post on the new Cisco UCS generation 3 Fabric Interconnect.

I noticed the other day that Cisco have released the data sheet on the latest member of the Cisco UCS family, the Cisco 6324 Fabric Interconnect, which is great because I can now finally blog about it.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-6300-series-fabric-interconnects/datasheet-c78-732207.html

Having been waiting for this for a long time, I immediately contacted our purchasing team to get a quote, with the view to getting one in for our Lab so I can have a good play with it, and I was again pleased to see it was listed on Cisco Commerce Workspace (CCW) all-be-it still…