Broadcom Brocade X7-4 Director - Extension Features

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Channel or IP connections. Extension tunnels, built on a physical connection between two extension switches or blades,
allow Fibre Channel and IP I/O to pass through the IP WAN. The SX6 Extension blade can connect with an SX6 blade in
another Brocade X7 Director or with a Brocade 7840 Extension Switch.
You can mix port and extension blades in device slots 3, 4, 7, and 8, but CR32-4 blades must be installed in slots 5 and 6.
You can install a maximum of four SX6 blades in the device.
The SX6 blade has the following external ports:
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16 Fibre Channel (FC) SFP+ ports that support Fibre Channel Routing Services and connection to FC devices for
the Brocade Extension feature. These ports support 32Gb/s transceivers operating at 8, 16, or 32Gb/s, 16Gb/s
transceivers operating at 4, 8, or 16Gb/s, and 10Gb/s transceivers operating at fixed 10Gb/s. FC ports can auto-
negotiate speeds with connecting ports.
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10 or 1GbE SFP+ and two 40GbE QSFP ports. These ports allow the connection of blades to IP WANs and allow Fibre
Channel and IP I/O to pass through the IP WAN using extension tunnels. The 10GbE or 1GbE ports operate at 10Gb/
s or 1Gb/s fixed speeds with appropriate 10Gb/s or 1Gb/s transceivers installed. The 40GbE QSFP ports operate at
40Gb/s fixed speed.
Extension blades have the following LED indicators:
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Green blade power LED
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Amber blade status LED
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Bicolor green/amber 40GbE and 10GbE or 1GbE port status LEDs
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Bicolor green/amber FC port status LEDs
For details on interpreting LED operation, see Interpreting Extension Blade LEDs.
All features are supported on this blade with no license requirements.
Extension Features
The SX6 Extension blade supports the following extension features:
NOTE
For full details on extension blade features and configuration, refer to the Brocade Fabric OS Extension User
Guide.
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Connectivity with another Brocade SX6 extension blade or the Brocade 7840 Extension Switch.
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Multiple logical extension tunnels with maximum tunnel bandwidth up to 40Gb/s (FCIP mode) allow for scalable
connections between sites.
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The Extension Trunking feature allows multiple IP source and destination address pairs (defined as circuits) through
multiple 10GbE or 40GbE interfaces to provide a high bandwidth extension tunnel and lossless failover resiliency. In
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