Chapter 7. Port And Extension Blades; Port Blade Overview; Fc32-48 Blade Port Numbering And Trunking - IBM SAN512B-6 Installation, Service And User Manual

Chapter 7. Port and Extension Blades

This chapter provides the following information:
v "Port blade overview"
v "Extension blade overview" on page 107
v "Precautions specific to the blade" on page 110
v "Faulty blade indicators" on page 111
v "Removing a blade" on page 111
v "Installing a blade" on page 114
v "Verifying blade operation" on page 115

Port blade overview

The FC32-48 port blade contains 48 ports capable of Fibre Channel (FC) speeds up
to 32 Gbps. Port blades connect to core routing blades through backplane ports.
Each core routing blade provides 96 backplane ports for port blade connection. The
port blade supports port-based in-flight encryption/decryption and
compression/decompression.
Port and extension blades can be mixed in device slots 3-6 and 9-12, but CR32-8
blades must be installed in slots 7 and 8. Up to eight hot-swappable port blades
can be installed in a single chassis to provide up to 384 32 Gbps FC ports.
The following optics can be installed in the blade's FC ports:
v 32 Gbps SFP+ transceivers supporting speeds 8,16, and 32 Gbps.
v 16 Gbps SFP+ transceivers supporting speeds of 4, 8, and 16 Gbps.
v 10 Gbps SFP+ transceivers supporting 10 Gbps.
Port blades contain the following LED indicators:
v Green blade power LED
v Amber blade status LED
v Bicolor green/amber FC port status LEDs
For details on interpreting LED operation, refer to "Interpreting port blade LEDs"
on page 69.

FC32-48 blade port numbering and trunking

The following illustration shows how ports are numbered and port trunking
groups are arranged on the blade.
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