Cooling system for brocade mlx, Series and brocade netiron xmr routers – Brocade Communications Systems Brocade MLX Series and Brocade Netlron XMR 53-1002373-02 User Manual

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Brocade MLX Series and Brocade NetIron XMR Hardware Installation Guide

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Router modules

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The fan control modules include a bi-color LED, which indicates the status of the fans.

Table 26

describes the states of this LED.

The router ships with fan assemblies fully installed. Fan assemblies are hot-swappable, which
means you can remove and replace them without powering down the system.

Cooling system for Brocade MLX Series and Brocade NetIron XMR routers

The cooling systems for Brocade MLX and Brocade NetIron XMR routers contain the following
components:

4-slot router: Equipped with a fan assembly that contains two 4-speed fans and two fan
controllers to support redundancy.

8-slot router: Equipped with a fan assembly containing four 4-speed fans and four fan
controllers to support redundancy.

16-slot router: Equipped with three fan assemblies. The fan tray located in the lower front of
the router contains six 4-speed fans. There are two fan assemblies located in the rear of the
router. For Brocade MLX-16 routers, each fan assembly contains one 4-speed fan. Eight fan
controllers support redundancy. High-speed fans for Brocade MLX-16 routers are identified in
the show chassis command output in the following manner:

Rev A Back Fan A-1: Status = OK, Speed = LOW (50%)

Rev A Back Fan A-2: Status = OK, Speed = LOW (50%)

32-slot router: Equipped with ten fan assemblies located in the rear of the router. Each fan
assembly contains a 4-speed fan. The fan trays support four settings, 50%, 75%, 90%, and
100%, as the normal fan speeds, which are set by the management module.

Figure 37

and

Figure 38

show the fan locations for 4-slot and 8-slot routers.

Figure 39

and

Figure 40

show the fan locations for 16-slot routers.

Figure 41

shows the fan locations for 32-slot

routers.

TABLE 25

Brocade MLXe-32 router fan control LED

LED

Position

State

Meaning

Fan control LED

Rear of router
on the fan
assembly

Off

The fans are not receiving power.

Green

The fans are working and responding to commands from the
fan control module.

Red

The fans are not working and not responding to commands
the fan control module.

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