Brocade Communications Systems Brocade Backbone DCX 8510-4 - Manual (Page 27)

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Brocade DCX 8510-4 blades
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Brocade DCX 8510-4 blades
Table 1 summarizes the port, application, control processor, and core switch blades that are
available for the Brocade DCX 8510-4.
TABLE 1 Blades available for the Brocade DCX 8510-4
Description Name Function
Brocade DCX 8510-4
control processor
blade CP8 The CP8 blade contains the control plane for the chassis. There
are two CP8 blades for redundancy. This control processor blade
is compatible with the Brocade DCX 8510-8, Brocade DCX 8510-4,
Brocade DCX, and Brocade DCX-4S.
Brocade DCX 8510-4
core switch blade CR16-4 The CR16-4 blade contains the ASICs for switching between port
blades. Every port blade connects to each core switch blade.
There can be up to 192 16 Gbps (256 8 Gbps) total ports for port
blades. Each core switch blade connects to 128 backplane ports.
Core switch blades have additional front port connectivity to
connect multiple chassis and backplane connections for the
storage server blade. This core switch blade is compatible only
with the Brocade DCX 8510-4.
64-port 8-Gbps port
blade FC8-64 A 64-port Brocade port blade supporting 2, 4, and 8 Gbps port
speeds with mSFPs. This port blade is compatible with the
Brocade DCX 8510-8, Brocade DCX 8510-4, Brocade DCX, and
Brocade DCX-4S.
32-port 8-Gbps port
blade FC8-32E A 32-port Brocade port blade supporting 2, 4, and 8 Gbps Fibre
Channel port speeds. This port blade is compatible with the
Brocade DCX 8510-8 and Brocade DCX 8510-4. This blade
requires Fabric OS v7.0.1 or later to run in this chassis.
48-port 8-Gbps port
blade FC8-48E A 48-port Brocade port blade supporting 2, 4, and 8 Gbps Fibre
Channel port speeds. This port blade is compatible with the
Brocade DCX 8510-8 and Brocade DCX 8510-4. This blade
requires Fabric OS v7.0.1 or later to run in this chassis.
32-port 16-Gbps port
blade FC16-32 A 32-port Brocade port blade supporting 2, 4, 8, 10, and 16 Gbps
Fibre Channel port speeds. The blade also supports port-based
in-flight encryption/decryption and compression/decompression.
This port blade is compatible with the Brocade DCX 8510-8 and
Brocade DCX 8510-4.
48-port 16-Gbps port
blade FC16-48 A 48-port Brocade port blade supporting 2, 4, 8, 10, and 16 Gbps
Fibre Channel port speeds. The blade also supports port-based
in-flight encryption/decryption and compression/decompression.
This port blade is compatible with the Brocade DCX 8510-8 and
Brocade DCX 8510-4.
Storage encryption
blade FS8-18 The FS8-18 blade enables data cryptographic
(encryption/decryption) and data-compression capabilities for
data-at-rest. It has 16 Fibre Channel optical SFP ports. This
application blade is compatible with the Brocade DCX 8510-8,
Brocade DCX 8510-4, Brocade DCX, and Brocade DCX-4S.
FCIP extension blade FX8-24 The FX8-24 blade enables FCIP functionality over existing IP
infrastructure. It has 12 FC ports, ten 1 GbE ports, and two 10
GbE ports available. This application blade is compatible with the
Brocade DCX 8510-8, Brocade DCX 8510-4, Brocade DCX, and
Brocade DCX-4S.