The Cisco SFS 3000 Series Multifabric Server Switches combine a high performance InfiniBand server interconnect with Ethernet and Fibre Channel gateways to allow an entire fabric of servers to share virtualized pools of I/O and storage resources connected through Ethernet or Fibre Channel switches such as Cisco Catalyst or Cisco MDS switches.
The switches can be deployed as standalone elements for small fabrics or used at the edge of a large fabric of Cisco SFS 7000 Series InfiniBand Server Switches. They are designed to reach beyond legacy clustering solutions to transform high-performance server clusters into flexible computing grids.
Combined with Cisco VFrame™ Server Fabric Virtualization software, the Cisco SFS 3000 Series provides a powerful foundation for automated server provisioning and on-demand computing.