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53-1004105-13 Hardware Installation Guide
Brocade X6-8 Director
Hardware Installation Guide
operate at 10GbE or 1GbE fixed speeds with appropriate 10G or 1G transceivers installed. The 40GbE QSFP ports
operate at 40GbE fixed speed.
Extension blades have 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 40GbE and 10GbE or 1GbE port status LEDs
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Bicolor green/amber FC port status LEDs
For details on interpreting LED operation, see Interpreting Extension Blade LEDs .
All features are supported on this blade with no license requirements.
Extension Features
The SX6 Extension blade supports the following extension features:
NOTE
For full details on extension blade features and configuration, refer to the
Brocade Fabric OS Extension User
Guide
.
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Connectivity with another Brocade SX6 extension blade or the Brocade 7840 Extension Switch.
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Multiple logical extension tunnels with maximum tunnel bandwidth up to 40GbE (FCIP mode) allow for scalable
connections between sites.
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The Extension Trunking feature allows multiple IP source and destination address pairs (defined as circuits) through
multiple 10GbE or 40GbE interfaces to provide a high bandwidth extension tunnel and lossless failover resiliency. In
addition, each extension circuit supports four QoS classes (class-F, high, medium, and low priority), each as a TCP
connection.
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The ARL feature meets the minimum bandwidth guarantee for each tunnel while fully utilizing the available network
bandwidth without adverse throughput performance impact at a high traffic load.
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Hardware-based compression delivers the ability to maximize throughput over lower bandwidth links in the wide-area
network, optimizing the cost efficiencies of FCIP. The SX6 blade compresses FC frames before they are encapsulated
into FCIP packets.
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Key protocol features are enabled in the FCIP implementation to optimize the performance of extension over IP
networks, including WAN Optimized TCP (WO-TCP), 9K jumbo frame, and end-to-end Path MTU auto-discovery.
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Hardware-based IPsec supports a mix of secure and non-secure tunnels on the same Ethernet port, jumbo frames,
and VLAN tagged connections. The IPsec function is capable of supporting both IPv4 and IPv6.
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FastWrite, Open Systems Tape Pipelining, and Advanced Accelerator for FICON mitigate the latency effect of a long-
distance FCIP distance connection over IP WAN.
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Extension HCL (Hot Code Load) provides in-service firmware upgrade for supporting 24/7 non-stop business
operations
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Built-in WAN link tester generates traffic over an IP connection to test for maximum throughput, congestion, loss
percentage, out-of-order delivery, latency, and other network conditions. It helps to determine the health of a WAN link
before deploying it for use.
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Fabric Vision advanced monitoring provides the following functions:
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Policy-based monitoring monitors extension connectivity and WAN anomalies using multi-layer metrics.
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Flow monitoring reports IOPS and data rate of individual I/O flows of inter-DC replication and tape backup
operations.
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Flow generator generates FC frames for a defined flow with default or custom size and pattern and sent across
extension tunnel to help validate end-to-end network setup and configuration.
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Extended distance Fibre Channel supports long-distance native FC connectivity.
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Extension tunnels and circuits:
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