Fibre Channel Port Specifications; Cp Card Specifications; Memory Specifications - HP StorageWorks 2/64 - Core Switch Installation Manual

Fibre Channel port specifications

The Fibre Channel ports in the Core Switch 2/64 and SAN Director 2/128 support full duplex
link speeds at 2.125 or 1.0625 Gb/s inbound and outbound, automatically negotiating to the
highest common speed of all devices connected to the port. Each port has a SerDes
(serializer/deserializer) that accepts 10-bit wide parallel data and serializes it into a
high-speed serial stream. The parallel data is expected to be 8B/10B encoded data or
equivalent.
The ports are compatible with optical SWL (short wavelength: 780–850 nm) and optical LWL
(long wavelength: 1270–1350 nm) SFPs (small form-factor pluggable media) and
SFP-compatible cables. The strength of the signal is determined by the type of SFP in use.
The ports are universal and self-configuring, capable of becoming F_Ports (fabric ports),
FL_Ports (fabric loop enabled), or E_Ports (expansion ports).

CP card specifications

CP card specifications listed in this section include:
• Memory specifications, page 143
• Battery specifications, page 144
• Terminal serial port
• Modem serial port

Memory specifications

CP card memory specifications include:
• Main memory: 256 MB SDRAM (32 bits wide)
• Flash memory:
• User flash: 16 MB of 16-bit wide memory, stored in two 8-MB banks
• Compact flash: 256 MB, partitioned in two 128-MB sections
• Boot flash: 512 KB of 8-bit for system boot
The centralized memory maximizes the overall switch throughput by guaranteeing full transmit
at all times.
specifications, page 144
specifications, page 145
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