X7-8-Install-IG100 Installation Guide
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X7-8 Director Hardware Installation Guide
Core Routing Blades
Core Routing Blade Overview
Two CR64-8 core routing blades are installed in device slots 7 and 8. Core routing blades contain ASICs that allow
switching between up to eight-port blades. Core routing blades connect to port blades through Fibre Channel backplane
ports. Each core switch blade provides 192 backplane Gen 7 FC ports for port blade connections. Each core routing
blade also has 64 front-end ports that are mapped to 16 QSFP transceivers on the blade's front panel. These transceivers
can create ICL connections for up to nine separate directors in a full-mesh topology and 12 directors in a core-to-edge
topology. This core switch blade is compatible only with the Brocade X7-8.
Core routing 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 QSFP port status LEDs
For details on interpreting LED operation, see
Interpreting Core Routing Blade LEDs
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CR64-8 Port Numbering
The following figure shows how ports are numbered and port trunking groups are arranged on the blade:
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