| System Architecture |
| Chassis | Brocade X7-8: Non-blocking architecture - X7-8 Director with 48x 64Gb/s port blades: 30.9Tb/s of aggregate
chassis bandwidth (384 device ports with a 64Gb/s data rate plus 32
4xGen7 ICLs)
- X7-8 Director with 64 64G port blades: 39.6Tb/s of aggregate
chassis bandwidth (512 device ports with a 64G data rate plus 32
4xGen7 ICLs)
Each provides support for (E, F, D, M, SIM, and EX) Fibre Channel
ports using 48-port 64Gb/s Fibre Channel blades. |
| Control processor | Redundant (active/standby) control processor modules. |
| Scalability | Full-fabric architecture of 239 switches. |
| Certified maximum | 6000 active devices per switch; 56 switches, 19 hops in Brocade
Fabric OS® (FOS) fabrics; larger fabrics certified as required. |
| Fibre Channel blades | - Brocade FC64-48 port blade provides 48 ports of 64Gb/s Fibre
Channel.
- Brocade FC64-64 port blade provides 64 ports of 64Gb/s Fibre
Channel.
- Brocade FC32-X7-48 port blade provides 48 ports of 32Gb/s Fibre
Channel.
- Brocade FC32-48 port blade provides 48 ports of 32Gb/s Fibre
Channel.
|
| Extension blades | Brocade SX6 Extension Blade provides Fibre Channel extension (16x
32Gb/s Fibre Channel ports) and IP extension over IP networks
(16×1GbE/10GbE and 2×40GbE ports). |
| Performance | Brocade FC64-48 Port Blade: - Fibre Channel: 8.5Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 10.53Gb/s line
speed, full duplex; 14.025Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 28.05Gb/s
line speed, full duplex; 57.8Gb/s line speed, full duplex.
- Autosensing of 8, 16, 32, and 64Gb/s port speeds depending on SFPs
used.
- 10Gb/s port speeds with dedicated SFPs.
Brocade FC64-64 Port Blade: - Fibre Channel: 8.5Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 14.025Gb/s line
speed, full duplex; 28.05Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 57.8Gb/s
line speed, full duplex.
- Autosensing of 8, 16, 32, and 64G port speeds depending on
SFP-DD/SFP+ used. Support for 8G requires a 32G SFP+ LWL or ELWL
transceiver.
Brocade FC32-X7-48 Port Blade: - Fibre Channel: 4.25Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 8.5Gb/s line
speed, full duplex; 10.53Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 14.025Gb/s
line speed, full duplex; 28.05Gb/s line speed, full duplex.
- Autosensing of 4, 8, 16, and 32Gb/s port speeds depending on SFPs
used.
- 10Gb/s port speeds with dedicated SFPs.
Brocade FC32-48 Port Blade: - Fibre Channel: 4.25Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 8.5Gb/s line
speed, full duplex; 10.53Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 14.025Gb/s
line speed, full duplex; 28.05Gb/s line speed, full duplex.
- Autosensing of 4, 8, 16, and 32G port speeds depending on SFPs
used.
- 10G port speeds with dedicated SFPs.
|
| ISL Trunking | Frame-based trunking with up to eight 64Gb/s ports per ISL trunk;
up to 512Gb/s per ISL trunk between switches using 8G, 16G, 32G, or
64G ports; exchange-based load balancing across ISLs with DPS
included in Brocade FOS. |
| UltraScale ICL Trunking | Chassis-to-chassis linkage through connectors on the Core Routing
(CR) blade. Can configure the following maximum number of QSFPs per
trunk depending on blade type, connecting: - Up to four QSFP ports in a trunk group between two Brocade CR64-4
blades. For trunks that contain four or fewer QSFP ports, ports in
a trunk must be in the same port group on each blade.
- Up to four QSFP ports in a trunk group between a Brocade CR64-4
blade and a CR64-8 blade. For trunks that contain four or fewer
QSFP ports, ports in a trunk must be in the same port group on each
blade.
A minimum of two QSFP connections are required for a trunk, and up
to four QSFP trunks between pairs of Brocade CR64-8 or CR64-4. |
| Multi-chassis with UltraScale ICL ports | Up to 4608 Fibre Channel ports; UltraScale ICL ports (32 for 8-slot
or 16 per 4-slot chassis, optical QSFP) connect up to 9 chassis in
a full-mesh topology or up to 12 chassis in a core-edge topology. |
| Chassis bandwidth | - X7-8: 39.6Tb/s per chassis with 512 device ports + 32 UltraScale ICL
connections supporting 128 ports.
- X7-4: 19.8Tb/s per chassis with 256 device ports + 16 UltraScale ICL
connections supporting 64 ports.
|
| Slot bandwidth | 3072Gb/s (line rate) providing line-rate performance for the
Brocade FC64-48 blade or 4096Gb/s providing line-rate performance
for the Brocade FC64-64 blade. |
| Maximum frame size | 2112-byte payload. |
| Frame buffers | 24,000 per switching ASIC. |
| Classes of service | Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames). |
| Fibre Channel port types | - CR64-8 and CR64-4 CR blades: E_Port, EX_Port, and D_Port.
- FC64-64, FC64-48, FC32-X7-48, FC32-48 port blades: F_Port, E_Port, EX_Port, M_Port, SIM, and D_Port.
- SX6 extension blade: F_Port, FL_Port, E_Port, SIM, and EX_Port on FC and VE_Port on
GbE.
Self-discovery is based on switch type (U_Port) with an optional
port type control. |
| Data traffic types | Fabric switches supporting unicast. |
| Media types | - Brocade FC64-48 port blade:
- 64G FC SFP+ LC connector: SWL, LWL, ELWL
- 32G FC SFP+ LC connector: SWL, LWL, ELWL
- 10G FC SFP+ LC connector: SWL, LWL
- Brocade FC64-64 port blade:
- 64G FC SFP-DD LC connector: SWL
- 64G FC SFP+ LC connector: SWL, LWL
- 32G FC SFP+ LC connector: LWL, ELWL
- Brocade FC32-X7-48 and FC 32-48 port blade:
- 32G FC SFP+ LC connector: SWL, LWL, ELWL
- 16G FC SFP+ LC connector: SWL, LWL, ELWL
- 10G FC SFP+ LC connector: SWL, LWL
- Brocade SX6 Extension Blade:
- 32G FC SFP+ LC connector: SWL, LWL, ELWL
- 16G FC SFP+ LC connector: SWL, LWL, ELWL
- 10G FC SFP+ LC connector: SWL, LWL
- Ethernet QSFP+ MPO connector: 40GBASE-SR4, 40GBASE-LR4, 40GBASE-ER4
- Ethernet QSFP+ LC connector: 40GbE BiDi
- 10GbE SFP+ LC connector: SR, LR
- 1GbE SFP+ LC connector: SX, LX
- 1GbE SFP+ copper connector
- Core Routing (CR) blades, Brocade CR64-4 and CR64-8:
- Gen 7 FC QSFP+ MPO connector: SWL, 2 km*
- 4x32G FC QSFP+ SMF LC connector: SWL, 2 km
* Use of the Gen 7 2-km ICL QSFP is subject to the following
environmental ratings for maximum intake air temperature: 0–40°C at
sea level; 0–35°C up to 1500m (4921 ft) elevation; and 0–30°C from
1500m to 3000m (9843 ft) elevation. |
| System Components |
| Fibre Channel ports | - Brocade X7-8: Up to 512 ports, universal (E_Port, F_Port, EX_Port, M_Port,
D_Port, SIM Port, *FICON).
*Brocade 48 port blade required |
| Classes of service | Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames). |
| ANSI Fibre Channel protocol | FC-PH (Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface standard). |
| Port-to-port latency | - Local switching: 460 ns at 64Gb/s (including FEC as part of the FC
standard).
- Blade-to-blade: 1.4 μs.
|
| High Availability |
| Architecture | Non-blocking shared memory; passive backplane; redundant
active/passive control processor; redundant active/active core
switching blades; redundant WWN cards. |
| Chassis power | - Brocade X7-8: 2+2 redundancy.
|
| Cooling | Brocade X7-8: - Requires three fan tray assemblies. A failure condition is one
failed fan from any fan tray.
- Each assembly contains two fans for a total of six fans. The system
requires five of six functioning fans for operation in the Brocade
X7-8. One fan tray assembly can be hot-swapped and should be
replaced immediately in the event of a failure.
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