Product Overview

Description

Specification
System Architecture

• Fibre Channel ports:
  
  
  
  • Switch mode (default): 12- and 24-port configurations (12-port increment through Ports on Demand [PoD] license); E, F, M, D ports
  
  
  • Brocade Access Gateway default port mapping: 16 F_Ports, 8 N_Ports
  
  
  
  


• Scalability: Full-fabric architecture with a maximum of 239 switches


• Certified maximum: 6,000 active nodes; 56 switches, 19 hops in Brocade Fabric OS fabrics; larger fabrics certified as required


• Performance: Fibre Channel: 2.125 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 4.25 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 8.5 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 14.025 Gbps line speed, full duplex; auto-sensing of 2, 4, 8, and 16 Gbps port speeds


• ISL trunking: Frame-based Trunking with up to eight 16 Gbps ports per ISL trunk; up to 128 Gbps per ISL trunk. Exchange-based load balancing across ISLs with DPS included in Brocade Fabric OS.


• Aggregate bandwidth: 384 Gbps end-to-end full duplex


• Maximum fabric latency: Latency for locally switched ports is 700 ns; Forward Error Correction (FEC) adds 400 ns between E_Ports (enabled by default).


• Maximum frame size: 2,112-byte payload


• Frame buffers: 8,192 dynamically allocated


• Classes of service: Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames)


• Port types: D_Port (ClearLink Diagnostic Port), E_Port, F_Port, M_Port (Mirror Port); optional port type control, Brocade Access Gateway mode: F_Port and NPIV-enabled N_Port


• Data traffic types: Fabric switches supporting unicast


• Fibre Channel distance subject to fiber-optic cable and port speed USBOne USB port for system log file downloads or firmware upgrades.


• Management
  
  
  
  • Supported management software: HTTP, SNMP v1/v3 (FE MIB, FC Management MIB), SSH; Auditing, Syslog; Brocade Advanced Web Tools; Brocade Network Advisor SAN Enterprise or Brocade Network Advisor SAN Professional/Professional Plus; Command Line Interface (CLI); SMI-S compliant; Administrative Domains; trial licenses for add-on capabilities
  
  
  • Security: DH-CHAP (between switches and end devices), FCAP switch authentication; HTTPS, IPsec, IP filtering, LDAP with IPv6, OpenLDAP, Port Binding, RADIUS, TACACS+, User-defined Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Secure Copy (SCP), Secure RPC, SFTP, SSH v2, SSL, Switch Binding, Trusted Switch
  
  
  • Management access: 10/100 Mbps Ethernet (RJ-45), in-band over Fibre Channel, serial port (RJ-45), and one USB port
  
  
  • Diagnostics: ClearLink optics and cable diagnostics, including electrical/optical loopback, link traffic/latency/distance; flow mirroring; built-in flow generator; POST and embedded online/offline diagnostics, including environmental monitoring, FCping and Pathinfo (FC traceroute), frame viewer, non-disruptive daemon restart, port mirroring, optics health monitoring, power monitoring, RAStrace logging, and Rolling Reboot Detection (RRD)
  
  
  
  Mechanical
  
  
  
  • Enclosure: Back-to-front airflow (port-side exhaust); power from back, 1U
  
  
  • Size
    
    
    
    • Width: 437.64 mm (17.23 in.)
    
    
    • Height: 43.18 mm (1.7 in.)
    
    
    • Depth: 443.23 mm (17.45 in.)
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • System weight:
    
    
    
    • 7.82 kg (17.25 lb) with one power supply, without transceivers
    
    
    • 9.16 kg (20.19 lb) with two power supply FRUs, without transceivers