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Appendix B. Application blades
This appendix contains specification information about optional application blades
FX8-24 blade
The FX8-24 blade has 12 external Fibre Channel (FC) SFP ports supporting the
Fibre Channel Routing Services and 10 external 1 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE or GE)
SFP ports supporting the Fibre Channel Over IP (FCIP) feature. There are also 2
licensable external 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE or 10GE) SFP ports supporting FCIP.
It operates with the Fabric Operating System and can communicate with another
FX8-24 or a SAN06B-R for both Fibre Channel Routing Services and FCIP. The GbE
ports on the FX8-24 are
not compatible with the GbE ports on the FR4-18i blade or
the SAN04B–R switch.
Note: The port diagram on the front panel of the blade uses the abbreviations GE
for 1 GbE and 10GE for 10 GbE ports.
Attention: The 10 GbE SFPs used in the FX8-24 blade and the 10 Gbps FC SFP+s
used in the FC16-32 and FC16-48 blades are NOT interchangeable.
The FX8-24 operates in one of three modes: 1) ten 1GbE ports, 2) ten 1GbE ports
and one 10 GbE port, or 3) two 10 GbE ports depending on licensing and
subsequent configuration of GbE port mode. If operating in 10GbE mode the other
end of the circuit must also be an FX8-24 operating in either 10GbE mode or dual
mode with the corresponding VE_ports in 10GbE mode. All GbE ports on the
blade can be configured to work with either copper or optical SFPs.
The FX8-24 blade is intended as a platform for FCIP and Fibre Channel Routing
Services. Refer to the
Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide for information on configuring
these features. The FX8-24 blade provides the following hardware features:
v 12 autosensing FC ports with link speeds of 1, 2, 4 or 8 Gbps
v
Ten GbE ports supporting FCIP with fixed link speed at 1 Gbps
v
Two 10GbE ports (licensable) supporting FCIP with fixed link speed at 10 Gbps
The FX8-24 blade also provides the following functionality features:
v FCIP
v
Compression (on FC frames before FCIP encapsulation)
v FC Routing (licensable)
v
FCIP Trunking (licensable) with network-based failure recovery (failover only)
and load balancing
v Multiple circuits per trunk
– Four per trunk through the GbE ports
– Ten per trunk through the 10 GbE ports
v SO-TCP with reorder resistance
v
FastWrite over FCIP
v Tape pipelining over FCIP
v
Virtual E_ports
v FCIP QoS
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