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53-1002177-19 Hardware Installation Guide Brocade DCX 8510-4 Backbone Hardware Installation Guide
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12 autosensing FC ports with link speeds of 1, 2, 4, or 8 Gbps
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Ten GbE ports supporting FCIP with fixed link speed at 1 Gbps
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Two 10 GbE ports (licensable) supporting FCIP with fixed link speed at 10 Gbps
The FX8-24 blade also provides the following functionality features:
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FCIP
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Compression (on FC frames before FCIP encapsulation)
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FC Routing (licensable)
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FCIP Trunking (licensable) with network-based failure recovery (failover only) and load balancing
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Multiple circuits per trunk:
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Four per trunk through the GbE ports
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Ten per trunk through the 10 GbE ports
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SO-TCP with reorder resistance
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FastWrite over FCIP
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Tape pipelining over FCIP
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FICON XRC emulation and tape pipelining over FCIP (licensable)
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FICON CUP (licensable)
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Virtual E_Ports
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FCIP QoS
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Support for 200 ms RTT (on a limited number of GbE ports)
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Adaptive Rate Limiting (licensable)
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TCP performance graphing in Web Tools
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FCIP Tunnels:
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A maximum of 10 FCIP Tunnels for all GbE ports
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Four tunnels maximum per GbE port
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Two 10 GbE ports can support up to ten FCIP tunnels each
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Each FCIP tunnel is represented and managed as a virtual Fibre Channel E_Port
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Fibre Channel Routing Services can be used over the FCIP link
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The Link Cost is equal to the sum of all established/low metric (or currently active) circuits’ MAX rates in the tunnel.
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Fabrics connected through FCIP merge if the ports are configured as VE_Ports, and do not merge if they are
configured as VEX_Ports. If VE_Ports are used in a Fibre Channel Routing Services backbone fabric configuration,
then the backbone fabric merges, but the EX_Port-attached edge fabrics do not merge. For more information, refer
to the Brocade Fabric OS Administration Guide.
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Up to three FC trunking groups:
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Trunk group 0: FC ports 0, 1
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Trunk group 1: FC ports 6, 7
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Trunk group 2: FC ports 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11
A RoHS-compliant version of the FX8-24 blade is available. To determine if this blade is installed, enter the chassisshow
command. Output for the Factory Part Number will be 60-1003135-XX. Downgrading to these FOS versions is also not
recommended if this blade is installed.
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