Brocade 7500 SAN Routers Hardware Reference Manual
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Overview of Brocade 7500 series Extension Switches
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Extension Switch Features
The following table compares features supported on the 7500 and 7500E models.
TABLE 1
Feature comparison - models 7500 and 7500E
Optional features
The following optional Brocade features are available with the purchase of a specific license key for
the 7500 and 7500E models.
•
ISL Trunking
•
Fabric Watch
•
Advanced Performance Monitoring
FICON CUP is available for the 7500 model. This feature is also available for the 7500E model with
the 7500E upgrade license.
For information on these features, see the
Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
.
Feature
7500
7500E
Base Unit
7500E
Upgrade License
Redundant power supplies and fans
Yes
Yes
Yes
Fibre channel ports 1-, 2-, or 4 Gbps
1,2,4 Gbps
1,2,4 Gbps
1,2,4 Gbps
Number of Fibre Channel ports
16
2
16
Number of GbE ports
2
2
2
Fibre Channel routing between remote fabrics for fault
isolation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Fast Write over Fibre Channel port
Yes
1
1.
Requires High Performance Extension license.
No
Yes
Tape Pipelining over Fibre Channel port
Yes
1
No
Yes
FCIP tunnel over GbE port
Yes
1
Yes
Yes
Maximum committed rate (throughput throttle) per FCIP
tunnel
Up to 1 Gbps
Up to 50 Mbps
Up to 1 Gbps
Number of connections or tunnel (remote sites) per port
8
1
8
IPSec
Yes
1
No
Yes
IP compression
Yes
1
Yes
Yes
Storage optimized TCP
Yes
1
Yes
Yes
Fast Write over FCIP tunnel
Yes
1
Yes
Yes
Tape Pipelining over FCIP tunnel
Yes
1
No
Yes
FICON XRC emulation and Tape Pipelining over FCIP
Yes
2
2.
Requires Brocade Accelerator for FICON license
No
Yes
2
Call home
Yes
No
Yes
