53-1004105-13 Hardware Installation Guide
Brocade X6-8 Director
Hardware Installation Guide
Port Number
Port Group
16–23
2
24–31
3
32–39
4
40–47
5
Following are the requirements for forming trunk groups:
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All ports in a trunk group must belong to the same port group. For example, to form an 8-port trunk select all eight ports
from port group 0 or port group 1. You cannot use ports from each port group for the trunk.
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You can use from 1–8 ports in a port group to form a trunk.
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All ports in a trunk must be running at the same speed.
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All ports in a trunk must be configured for the same distance.
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All ports in a trunk must have the same encryption, compression, QoS, and FEC settings.
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Trunk groups must be created between Brocade switches (or Brocade adapters in the case of F_Port trunking).
Brocade trunking is proprietary and is not supported on third-party switches.
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There must be a direct connection between participating switches.
FC32-64 Port Blade Overview
The FC32-64 port blade contains 16 QSFP28 ports. Each QSFP optics supports four ports for connecting FC devices.
With a breakout cable connected to the QSFP transceiver, connections are provided for up to four devices.
Breakout capability allows four SFP+ front ports on qualified Fibre Channel and Ethernet QSFP transceivers to
operate at multiple speeds. For example, SFP+ front ports on an FC 4x32G SWL QSFP+ transceiver each operate at
32G or four SFP+ front ports on a 40GbE QSFP+ transceiver can each operate at 10GbE. By default Ethernet ports
operate in non-breakout mode, so you must enable breakout mode for ports containing Ethernet transceivers using the
portcfgbreakout --enable
command.
Connection speeds depend on the QSFP transceiver installed. For example, a 4x32G QSFP+ transceiver would provide
four 32/16G connections and a 4x16G QSFP+ transceiver provides four 16/8/4G connections.
The following list shows considerations for using these blades:
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Port and extension blades can be mixed in device slots 3–6 and 9–12, but CR32-8 blades must be installed in slots 7
and 8. Up to eight hot-swappable port blades can be installed in a single chassis to provide up to 384 32G FC ports.
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It is recommended that three fan assemblies be installed on the Brocade Brocade X6-8 chassis if blades are being
used.
Port blades contain the following LED indicators.
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Green blade power LED
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Amber blade status LED
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Bicolor green/amber port status LEDs
Flexport allows you to configure individual ports on the FC32-64 blade for Fibre Channel (FC) or Fibre Channel over
Ethernet (FCoE) connections when qualified FC or Ethernet transceivers are installed in the ports. Configure FC (default)
or Ethernet operation for a port using the
portcfgflexport
command.
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FC operation allows the connection of blades to fabric storage, servers, and switches. An FC transceiver must be
installed in a port to configure FC operation for that port. Supported FC transceivers include 4x32G QSFP28 and
4x16G QSFP+ transceivers.
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FCoE operation allows the connection of blades to FCoE devices as part of a unified fabric. The FCoE devices can be
servers or connections through an FCoE Initialization Protocol snooping bridge (FSB). An Ethernet transceiver must be
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