Brocade Communications Systems 7500 Extension, Hardware Reference Manual

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Overview of Brocade 7500 series Extension Switches
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Features not supported
The following Brocade features are not supported:
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ISL Trunking is not supported on EX_Ports.
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Secure Fabric OS is not supported if the ports are configured as EX_Ports and devices are
imported from edge fabrics to backbone fabric.
Upgrading the 7500E
An upgrade kit is available for the 7500E that includes the 7500E Upgrade license and 14
additional small form factor pluggable (SFP) fiber-optic transceivers. The license activates 14
additional Fibre Channel ports and the full complement of 7500 features, including those available
with the 7500 model High-Performance Extension license. After this upgrade, the 7500E will
operate just like the 7500 model with High_Performance Extension license, except the model
number remains as 7500E.
NOTE
An upgrade license is required to enable additional ports on the 7500E base unit and to enable
additional features listed in
Table 1 on page 3. If you attempt to enable features or configurations
for features beyond those listed for the 7500E Base Unit, an error message displays describing the
reason for the error.
Port side of the Extension Switch
Figure 1 shows the port side of the 7500 Series Extension Switches.
NOTE
The 7500E model is shipped with Fibre Channel ports installed in slots 0 and 1 and the two GbE
ports installed. All other port slots are empty.