Brocade Communications Systems Brocade Backbone DCX 8510-4 - Manual (Page 22)

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Brocade DCX 8510-4 hardware components
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• Beginning with Fabric OS v7.0.1, up to nine chassis can be connected with the use of 4x16
Gbps quad SFP (QSFP) inter-chassis links (ICLs). Fabric OS v7.0.0 permits up to six chassis to
be linked.
• Support for high-performance port blades running at 2, 4, 8, 10, or 16 Gbps, enabling flexible
system configuration.
• Redundant and hot-swappable control processor and core switch blades, power supplies,
blower assemblies, and WWN cards that enable a high availability platform and enable
nondisruptive software upgrades for mission-critical SAN applications.
• Universal ports that self-configure as E_Ports, F_Ports, EX_Ports and M_Ports (mirror ports).
10 Gbps ports are E_Ports only.
• Diagnostic port (D_Port) functionality.
• In-flight data cryptographic (encryption/decryption) and data compression capabilities through
the 16 Gbps port blades.
• Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) functionality through the FX8-24 blade.
Brocade DCX 8510-4 hardware components
The Brocade DCX 8510-4 features a modular and scalable mechanical construction that allows a
wide range of flexibility in installation, fabric design, and maintenance. The chassis can be
mounted with the cables facing the front of the equipment rack or to the rear, and consists of the
following:
• Up to four hot-swappable port blade assemblies that can be configured in a single chassis,
delivering up to 192 16 Gbps Fibre Channel ports.
• Two slots for control processor blades (CP8):
- A single active CP8 blade can control all 192 ports in the chassis.
- The standby CP8 blade assumes control of the Brocade DCX 8510-4 if the active CP fails.
• Two slots for core switch blades (CR16-4):
- CR16-4 blade interconnects all port blades.
- Inter-chassis link (ICL) connectors to connect to as many as nine neighboring chassis
under Fabric OS v7.0.1. Six chassis can be connected under Fabric OS v7.0.0.
- Both CR16-4 blades are active.
• Modular, hot-swappable port blades:
- 64-port, 8-Gbps blades (FC8-64)
- 32-port, 8-Gbps blades (FC8-32E)
- 48-port, 8-Gbps blades (FC8-48E)
- 32-port, 16-Gbps blades (FC16-32)
- 48-port, 16-Gbps blades (FC16-48)
• Modular, hot-swappable application blades:
- FX8-24: 24-port (12 FC, 10 GbE, 2 10GbE) FCIP extension blade enabling long distance
communication over existing IP infrastructure.