Fibre Channel Switch Blade - Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMERGY BX600 S2 Operating Manual

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Fibre Channel Switch Blade

The 2/4 Gbit Brocade SilkWorm 4016 Fibre Channel switch blade, hereinafter
referred to as FC switch blade, provides up to ten internal fabric ports to the
server blades and up to six external fabric ports for fast and reliable connection
to an SAN. The FC switch blade automatically adapts to transfer rates of 1 up
to 4 Gbit/s. With the BX600 S2 basic unit it offers transfer rates of 2 Gbit/s
(internal) and 4 Gbit/s (external). A 10/100 Mbit/s RJ45 connection is available
for administration of the FC switch blade across a LAN.
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All features of Brocade Fabric OS 5.0.4, the joint software platform for
Brocade fibre channel switches, are available as an operating system for
the FC switch blade. Administration of the FC switch blade is handled by
Fabric Watch and Advanced Web Tools from Brocade.
Figure 58: Fibre Channel Switch Blade
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Besides the 16-ports version the switch blade unit is available as a 12-
ports version with eight internal and four external fabric ports.
The PRIMERGY BX600 S2 base unit can be fitted with two FC switch blades.
The slots for the FC switch blades are on the rear of the base unit (NET3 and
NET4 in figure 60 on page
describes how the fibre channel ports of the server blades are assigned to the
FC switch blades.
PRIMERGY BX600 S2 Basic Unit
108). Section "Port Assignment" on page 108
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