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Beacon LEDs for Unified Ports
Each port on the 6200 series fabric interconnect has a corresponding beacon LED. When the Beacon LED
property is configured, the beacon LEDs illuminate, showing you which ports are configured in a given port
mode.
The Beacon LED property can be configured to show you which ports are grouped in one port mode: either
Ethernet or Fibre Channel. By default, the Beacon LED property is set to Off.
For unified ports on the expansion module, the Beacon LED property may be reset to the default value of
Off during expansion module reboot.
Note
Guidelines for Configuring Unified Ports
Consider the following guidelines and restrictions when configuring unified ports:
Hardware and Software Requirements
Unified ports are supported on the 6200 series fabric interconnect with Cisco UCS Manager, version 2.0.
Unified ports are not supported on 6100 series fabric interconnects, even if they are running Cisco UCS
Manager, version 2.0.
Port Mode Placement
Because the Cisco UCS Manager GUI interface uses a slider to configure the port mode for unified ports on
a fixed or expansion module, it automatically enforces the following restrictions which limits how port modes
can be assigned to unified ports. When using the Cisco UCS Manager CLI interface, these restrictions are
enforced when you committhe transaction to the system configuration. If the portmode configuration violates
any of the following restrictions, the Cisco UCS Manager CLI displays an error:
• Ethernet ports must be grouped together in a block. For each module (fixed or expansion), the Ethernet
port block must start with the first port and end with an even numbered port.
• Fibre Channel ports must be grouped together in a block. For each module (fixed or expansion), the first
port in the Fibre Channel port block must follow the last Ethernet port and extend to include the rest of
the ports in the module. For configurations that include only Fibre Channel ports, the Fibre Channel
block must start with the first port on the fixed or expansion module.
• Alternating Ethernet and Fibre Channel ports is not supported on a single module.
Example of a valid configuration— Might include unified ports 1–16 on the fixed module configured in
Ethernet port mode and ports 17–32 in Fibre Channel port mode. On the expansion module you could configure
ports 1–4 in Ethernet port mode and then configure ports 5–16 in Fibre Channel mode. The rule about alternating
Ethernet and Fibre Channel port types is not violated because this port arrangement complies with the rules
on each individual module.
Example of an invalid configuration— Might include a block of Fibre Channel ports starting with port 16.
Because each block of ports has to start with an odd-numbered port, you would have to start the block with
port 17.
Cisco UCS Manager GUI Configuration Guide, Release 2.0
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Unified Ports on the 6200 Series Fabric Interconnect