Brocade Communications Systems DCX 8510-8 User Manual

The FX8-24 operates in one of three modes: 1) ten 1-GbE ports, 2) ten 1-GbE ports and one 10-GbE port, or 3) two 10-GbE ports
depending on licensing and subsequent conguration of GbE port mode. If operating in 10-GbE mode, the other end of the circuit must
also be an FX8-24 operating in either 10-GbE mode or dual mode with the corresponding VE_ports in 10-GbE mode. All GbE ports
on the blade can be congured to work with either copper or optical SFPs.
The FX8-24 blade is intended as a platform for FCIP and Fibre Channel Routing Services. Refer to the Fabric OS Administrator's Guide
for information on conguring these features.
The FX8-24 blade provides the following hardware features:
• 12 autosensing FC ports with link speeds of 1, 2, 4, or 8 Gbps
• Ten GbE ports supporting FCIP with xed link speed at 1 Gbps
• Two 10 GbE ports (licensable) supporting FCIP with xed link speed at 10 Gbps
The FX8-24 blade also provides the following functionality features:
• FCIP
• Compression (on FC frames before FCIP encapsulation)
• FC Routing (licensable)
• FCIP Trunking (licensable) with network-based failure recovery (failover only) and load balancing
• Multiple circuits per trunk:
– Four per trunk through the GbE ports
– Ten per trunk through the 10 GbE ports
• SO-TCP with reorder resistance
• FastWrite over FCIP
• Tape pipelining over FCIP
• FICON XRC emulation and tape pipelining over FCIP (licensable)
• FICON CUP (licensable)
• Virtual E_Ports
• FCIP QoS
• Support for 200 ms RTT (on a limited number of GbE ports)
• Adaptive Rate Limiting (licensable)
• TCP performance graphing in Web Tools
• FCIP Tunnels:
– A maximum of 10 FCIP Tunnels for all GbE ports
– Four tunnels maximum per GbE port
– Two 10 GbE ports can support up to ten FCIP tunnels each
– Each FCIP tunnel is represented and managed as a virtual Fibre Channel E_Port
– Fibre Channel Routing Services can be used over the FCIP link
– The Link Cost is equal to the sum of all established/low metric (or currently active) circuits’ MAX rates in the tunnel.
– Fabrics connected through FCIP merge if the ports are congured as VE_Ports, and do not merge if they are congured as
VEX_Ports. If VE_Ports are used in a Fibre Channel Routing Services backbone fabric conguration, then the backbone
fabric merges, but the EX_Port-attached edge fabrics do not merge. For more information, refer to the Fabric OS
Administrator's Guide.
• Up to three FC trunking groups:
– Trunk group 0: FC ports 0, 1
– Trunk group 1: FC ports 6, 7
FX8-24 blade
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Brocade Communications Systems DCX 8510-8 Specifications

General

Brand	Brocade Communications Systems
Model	DCX 8510-8
Category	Switch
Language	English