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Technical specifications
This Appendix provides the following information:
• System
architecture, page 101
• System size and
• System blade and FRU
• Facility
requirements, page 103
• Power
specifications, page 103
• Power
cords, page 104
• Environmental
• Fibre Channel port
• Data transmission
• General
specifications, page 108
System architecture
Table 20
System architecture
Fibre Channel Ports
Control Processor
Scalability
Performance
ISL Trunking
Aggregate
bandwidth
Switch latency
Maximum frame
size
Frame buffers
Classes of service
weight, page 102
weights, page 103
requirements, page 107
specifications, page 107
ranges, page 108
Up to 384 ports, universal (E_Port, F_Port, FL_port, Ex_port, and M_port)
Redundant (active/standby) control processor modules
Full fabric architecture: 239 switches maximum
1.063 Gbps line speed, full duplex
2.125 Gbps line speed, full duplex
4.25 Gbps line speed, full duplex
8.50 Gbps line speed, full duplex
10.51875 Gbps line speed, full duplex (with FC10-6 blade)
Autosensing of 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gbps port speeds optionally programmable to
fixed port speed, speed matching between 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gbps port speeds
Can use up to 8 ports in a trunk group to form a 64 Gbps trunk
6144 Gbps, end-to-end, when using eight FC4-48 port blades
FC8- 1 6 blade:
<2.1 μsec any port to any port at 8 Gbps, cut-through routing.
For the FC8-32 blade:
<2.1 μsec any port to any port at 8 Gbps, cut-through routing.
For the FC8-48 blade:
<2.1 μsec any port to any port at 8 Gbps, cut-through routing.
For the FR4- 1 8i blade:
<3.6 μsec any port to any port at 4 Gbps, cut-through routing.
For the FC4- 1 6IP blade:
<3.6 μsec any port to any port at 4 Gbps, cut-through routing.
21 12-byte payload
2048 per ASIC, dynamically allocated
Class 2, Class 3, Class F (interswitch frames)
DC SAN Backbone Director hardware reference guide 101
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