53-1004106-15 Installation Guide
Brocade
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X6-4 Director Hardware Installation Guide
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A single active CP blade can control all the ports in the device.
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The standby CP blade assumes control of the device if the active CP blade fails.
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Two slots for core routing (CR) blades:
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The CR blade interconnects all port blades.
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The blades provide up to 16 4x32G QSFP28 (ICL) ports.
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ICL ports allow interconnection with neighboring director chassis.
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Both CR blades are active and can be hot-swapped.
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Up to four slots for modular, hot-swappable 34-port SX6 extension blades. The blades provide 16 32G Fibre Channel
(FC) ports supporting 8G, 16G, and 32G or 16 16G FC ports supporting 4G, 8G, and 16G; 16 GbE ports supporting 1
or 10GbE; and two Ethernet ports supporting 40GbE. Extension blades enable long-distance communication over an
existing IP infrastructure.
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Modular, hot-swappable field-replaceable units (FRUs):
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Two fan assemblies, available with NPI or NPE airflow.
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Up to two power supplies, available with the NPI or NPE airflow. Redundant primary power connections ensure high
availability. Each power supply assembly has its own connector, so the number of primary power connections is two
for optimum efficiency and redundancy.
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Two World Wide Name (WWN) cards located on the nonport side of the device behind the WWN card bezel.
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Port blades use small form-factor pluggable (SFP+, QSFP+, and QSFP28) optical transceivers.
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Core routing blades use QSFP+ and QSFP28 optical transceivers.
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Chassis door. This door must be installed to meet EMI compliance certification.
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Two vertical cable management finger assemblies. These install on the equipment rack for cable management.
NOTE
Device control processors and management modules contain batteries for RTC/NVRAM backup. Do not attempt
to replace these batteries. Dispose of hardware components that contain these batteries as required by local
ordinances and regulations.
Port-Side View of the Device
The following figure shows the port-side view of the Brocade X6-4 Director with installed blades identified. Note that the
SX6 extension blade is not shown in the following figure, but would install in the same slots as the FC32-48 or FC32-64
port blades. A maximum of four SX6 blades are supported.
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