Recommendations For Cable Management - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Hardware Reference Manual

5. Verify the correct operation of the FR4-18i blade ports by typing the switchShow command
from the Director command prompt. This command provides information about switch and port
status.
Once the FR4-18i blade is installed and fully configured in a Director, the switchShow command
displays 32 Fibre Channel ports (port numbers 0 through 31) and two GbE ports. The first 16
Fibre Channel ports are physical ports on the FR4-18i blade, Ports 16-23 are virtual ports
associated with the GE0 physical GbE link and ports 24-31 are virtual ports associated with
GE1 physical GbE link.
The GbE ports are displayed as ge0 and ge1 and are not assigned port numbers or area
numbers.

Recommendations for cable management

Manage cables as follows:
• Plan cable management before installing the blade.
• Leave at least one meter of slack for each port cable. This provides room to remove and replace
the blades, and helps prevent the cables from being bent to less than the minimum bend radius.
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