The Fabric Interconnect is a complete access switching and I/O platform designed to consolidate and virtualize the switching infrastructure for server and storage systems deployed in high-performance enterprise clouds. In documentation, this switch is also called the virtualization switch.
The virtualization switch can be configured many ways, with up to 48 4x IB ports, 24 16Gb FC ports, 48 10GBASE-T ports, 48 40G Ethernet ports, or a mixture of these ports to provide network and gateway capabilities. Additionally, 4 12x IB ports, 4 1GBASE-T ports, and 2 4x IB/40GbE combination ports provide both network and gateway capabilities.
Separate, dedicated, and optimized on-board SP, ABD, and SCP manage chassis functionality, Ethernet traffic, and IB fabric respectively, through user-friendly CLIs and web interfaces.
The virtualization switch can be customized with Oracle F2 I/O modules that provide server connectivity to storage, Gigabit Ethernet, and IB resources through I/O modules that fit into any of the switch's 12 slots.
For more information, refer to the Oracle Fabric Interconnect F2-12 Installation Guide.