Chapter 14: Fibre Channel Cards
FBC-3601A, FBC-3602A Modules
SmartBits System Reference 191
FBC-3601A, FBC-3602A Modules
• FBC-3601A SmartMetrics 1 Gbps Fibre Channel module
• FBC-3602A SmartMetrics 1 and 2 Gbps Fibre Channel module
Where Used: SMB-600 or SMB-6000B.
Applications
Supported:
SmartFabric, SmartWindow, SmartLib, and ScriptCenter.
Devices Tested: Fibre Channel-based SAN switches, routers, hubs, and bridges.
Test Objective: • Performs throughput, frame loss, stream latency, and sequence tracking tests on
systems ranging from a single DUT to a large complex SAN fabric.
• Comparative analysis of SAN products and re-qualify devices after hardware or
firmware upgrades.
• Analyze performance under many traffic conditions.
Features: • Generates up to 512 independent data streams and analyzes up to 64K streams at any
given time.
• Supports Point-to-Point and Loop (public and private) modes.
• Performs loop initialization, fabric login, and name server registration for one or
many devices.
• Emulates up to 126 source devices on a loop.
• Per-stream payload and frame size (4 to 16KB) settings and per-port transmission
mode control settings (continuous, single-burst, multi-burst, continuous multi-burst,
and echo).
• Real-life traffic shaping through random frame length, inter-frame gap, and frame
content settings.
• Arbitrary stream sequencing enables the mixing of various frame rates.
• Per-port statistics provide counters for transmitted frames, received frames, received
bytes, and received CRC errors.
• 16MB capture buffer enables the logging and exporting of filtered events to external
protocol analysis equipment.
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