Brocade Dcx 8510-8 Overview; Brocade Dcx 8510-8 Features - Brocade Communications Systems Backbone DCX 8510-8 Hardware Reference Manual

Brocade DCX 8510-8 Overview

● Brocade DCX 8510-8 features........................................................................................ 13
● Brocade DCX 8510-8 hardware components................................................................. 14
● Brocade DCX 8510-8 blades.......................................................................................... 17
● High availability............................................................................................................... 19
● Reliability.........................................................................................................................19
● Serviceability................................................................................................................... 20
● Software features............................................................................................................ 20
● Security........................................................................................................................... 20
● Network manageability....................................................................................................21

Brocade DCX 8510-8 features

Key features of the Brocade DCX 8510-8 include:
• 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.
• The Brocade DCX 8510-8 also supports 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 port speed 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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