Product Overview; Product Features - Brocade Communications Systems DCX 8510-8 Hardware Installation Manual

Product Overview

• Product features................................................................................................................................................................................................. 15
• Hardware components.................................................................................................................................................................................... 16
• Supported blades.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 19
• Chassis slots numbering................................................................................................................................................................................ 20
• Port numbering.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 20
• High availability................................................................................................................................................................................................... 21
• Reliability................................................................................................................................................................................................................21
• Serviceability........................................................................................................................................................................................................22
• Software features............................................................................................................................................................................................... 22
• Security.................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 23
• Network manageability....................................................................................................................................................................................24

Product features

Key product features include the following:
• Up to 512 16-Gbps external ports in a single chassis , enabling high density SAN configurations with reduced footprint.
• Support for 2, 4, 8, and 16-Gbps autosensing Fibre Channel ports. Trunking technology groups up to eight ports to create high
performance 128-Gbps ISL trunks between switches.
• 10-Gbps FC-type SFPs in 32/48-port 16-Gbps port blades, and 10-GbE SFPs in the FX8-24 and FCOE10-24 application
blades . The two types of SFPs are not interchangeable.
• The 10-Gbps ports can be manually configured on any port of the 32- and 48-port 16-Gbps port blades.
• Support for many of the application, port blade, and control processor (CP) blades supported in the Brocade DCX family of
backbones (with the exception of the Core Switch Blade), thereby providing flexible system configurations and fewer types of
new blades.
• 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 when
configured as ISLs.
• Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) functionality through the FX8-24 blade.
• Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) capability through the FCOE10-24 blade.
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