53-1004106-15 Installation Guide
Brocade
®
X6-4 Director Hardware Installation Guide
System Component
Description
System architecture
Nonblocking-shared memory.
Maximum frame size
2112-byte payload.
Frame buffers
15,384 per ASIC.
Port types
•
FC32-48 and FC32-64 port blades: F_Port, E_Port, EX_Port, M_Port, SIM, and D_Port.
•
SX6 extension blade: F_Port, FL_Port, E_Port, SIM, and EX_Port on FC, and VE_Port on GbE.
Self-discovery is based on switch type (U_Port) with an optional port type control.
Data traffic types
Fabric switches supporting unicast, multicast (255 groups), and broadcast.
Media types
For current information on qualified transceivers supported by this device, refer to the
Brocade
Transceiver Support Matrix
and the resources on the Brocade Transceiver Modules webpage. These
resources include transceiver product briefs.
USB
One USB port per control processor for firmware download, support save, and configuration upload
or download.
Fabric services
Adaptive Networking (Ingress Rate Limiting, Traffic Isolation, QoS); Advanced Performance
Monitoring; BB credit recovery; Brocade Advanced Zoning (default zoning, port/WWN zoning,
broadcast zoning); Dynamic Path Selection (DPS); Extended Fabrics; Fabric Vision; FDMI; FICON
CUP; Flow Vison; Frame Redirection; FSPF; Integrated Routing; IPFC; ISL Trunking; Management
Server; N_Port Trunking; NPIV; NTP v3; Port Fencing; Registered State Change Notification
(RSCN); Reliable Commit Service (RCS); Simple Name Server (SNS); syslog; Virtual Fabrics
(logical switch, logical fabric); target-driven zoning; peer zoning.
Extension
Supports DWDM, CWDM, and FC-SONET devices; Fibre Channel, in-flight compression (Brocade
LZO) BB credit recovery; Extension trunking, FICON Extension, IP Extension, Adaptive Rate
Limiting (ARL), data compression, Fast Write, read/write Tape Pipelining, QoS.
FICON
FICON cascading; support for lossless DLS; FICON CUP; Advanced Accelerator for FICON (IBM
z/OS Global Mirror and Read/Write Tape Pipelining). FICON connectivity is not supported on the
FC32-64 blade.
Inter-chassis link (ICL)
Chassis-to-chassis linkage through connectors on the core routing (CR) blade.
Fibre Channel
System Component
Description
Fibre Channel ports
Brocade X6-4 Director: Up to 256 32G ports, universal FC (E_Port, EX_Port, F_Port, M_Port,
D_Port, FICON) and Ethernet.
Classes of service
Class 2, Class 3, Class F (interswitch frames).
ANSI Fibre Channel protocol
Fibre Channel Physical and Signalling Interface standard (FC-PH).
Fabric initialization
Complies with FC-SW 5.0.
IP Extension (IP over Fibre
Channel)
Complies with FC-IP 2.3 of the FCA profile.
Switching capacity
An aggregate switching capacity of 6.7 billion frames per second for a 192-port or 256-port chassis.
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