Cp Blades - Brocade Communications Systems 1606 Administrator's Manual

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Term
48-port 8-Gbps port blade
6-port 10-Gbps port blade
Fibre Channel Router blade
iSCSI Bridge blade
Fibre Channel Application
blade
Brocade Encryption blade
Converged Enhanced Ethernet
blade
DCX Extension blade

CP blades

The control processor (CP) blade provides redundancy and acts as the brains of the
enterprise-class platform. The Brocade 48000 supports the CP256 blade. The Brocade DCX and
DCX-4S support the CP8 blades.
The CP blades in the Brocade DCX and DCX-4S are hot-swappable. When the CPs from a Brocade
DCX are inserted into a Brocade DCX-4S, the switch type changes. The same is true when inserting
a CP blade from a Brocade DCX-4S into a Brocade DCX. When a CP blade with a Fabric OS prior to
v6.2.0 is inserted into a Brocade DCX-4S, the blade becomes faulty. You can correct this issue by
upgrading the firmware on the CP blade in a Brocade DCX or DCX-4S chassis.
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Brocade enterprise-class platform terminology and abbreviations (Continued)
Abbreviation Blade ID
FC8-48
FC10-6
FR4-18i
FC4-16IP
FA4-18
FS8-18
FCOE10-24 74
FX8-24
Blade terminology and compatibility
Definition
(slotshow)
51 A 48-port Brocade platform port blade supporting 1, 2,
4, and 8 Gbps port speeds. The Brocade DCX and
DCX-4S support loop devices on 48-port blades in
Virtual Fabrics-enabled environment. The loop devices
can only be attached to ports on a 48-port blade that
is not a part of the default logical switch.
39 A 6-port Brocade platform port blade supporting 10
Gbps port speed. Blade provides 10-Gbps ISLs. This
port blade is compatible only with the Brocade 48000
CP blades (using chassis configuration option 5) and
the Brocade DCX and DCX-4S CP blades.
24 A 16-port Fibre Channel routing and FCIP blade that
also has 2 GbE ports and is compatible only with the
Brocade 48000 (using chassis configuration option 5)
and the Brocade DCX and DCX-4S CP blades.
31 An iSCSI bridge blade that enables bridging of iSCSI
hosts to Fibre Channel fabrics. It has 8 Fibre Channel
optical SFP ports and 8 GbE copper RJ-45 ports. This
blade is currently compatible with the Brocade 48000
CP blades (using chassis configuration option 5).
33 An application blade that has 16 (1-, 2-, and 4-Gbps)
ports supporting Fibre Channel Application Services
and two 10/100/1000 BaseT Ethernet copper
interfaces supporting blade management.
43 An application blade that provides high performance
32 port auto-sensing 8 Gbps Fibre Channel
connectivity with data cryptographic
(encryption/decryption) and data compression
capabilities.
An application blade that provides Converged
Enhanced Ethernet to bridge a Fibre Channel and
Ethernet SAN.
75 A 24-port Fibre Channel routing and FCIP blade that
also has 10 1-GbE and two 10-GbE ports and is
compatible only with the Brocade DCX and DCX-4S CP
blades.
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