Brocade 6505 Hardware Reference Manual - Manual (Page 13)

Brocade 6505 Introduction
● Brocade 6505 overview...................................................................................................13
● Port side of the Brocade 6505.........................................................................................15
● Nonport side of the Brocade 6505.................................................................................. 16
Brocade 6505 overview
The Brocade 6505 is a 24-port auto-sensing 2, 4, 8, or 16 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) switch that delivers
the latest Brocade single-chip architecture for Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs). The
Brocade 6505 is a small-to-midsize business-class switch that is designed to handle smaller-scale SAN
requirements.
The Brocade 6505 provides up to 24 ports in a single height (1U) switch that enables the creation of
very dense fabrics in a relatively small space.
The Brocade 6505 offers Ports on Demand (POD) licensing as well. "Base" models of the switch
contain 12 ports, and an additional 12-port POD license can be purchased. The base model also offers
a single power supply and fan module with a second module available as an upgrade for redundancy.
The Brocade 6505 supplies Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) performance and the
scalability requirements of an enterprise switch along with interoperability and ease-of-use advantages.
The Brocade 6505 can also be configured in Access Gateway (AG) mode that lets you configure your
Enterprise fabric to handle additional N_Ports instead of domains. By reducing the number of domain
IDs and ports, you simplify configuration and management in a large fabric.
Switches in AG mode are logically transparent to the host and the fabric. You can increase the number
of hosts that have access to the fabric without increasing the number of switches.
Platform features
The Brocade 6505 offers the following features and capabilities:
• Up to 24 auto-sensing ports of high-performance 16-Gbps technology in a single domain.
• Ports on Demand scaling from 12 to 24 ports.
• 2, 4, 8, and 16 Gbps auto-sensing Fibre Channel switch and router ports.
‐ 2, 4, and 8 Gbps performance is enabled by 8 Gbps SFP+ transceivers.
‐ 4, 8, and 16 Gbps performance is enabled by 16 Gbps SFP+ transceivers.
• Universal ports self-configure as E, F, or M ports. D-port functionality is also available for diagnostics.
• Airflow is set for port side exhaust.
• Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking, which allows up to eight ports (at 2, 4, 8, or 16 Gbps speeds)
between a pair of switches combined to form a single, logical ISL with a speed of up to 128 Gbps
(256 Gbps full duplex) for optimal bandwidth utilization and load balancing. The base model permits
one eight-port trunk plus one four-port trunk.
• Dynamic Path Selection (DPS), which optimizes fabric-wide performance and load balancing by
automatically routing data to the most efficient available path in the fabric.
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