Brocade 7500 SAN Routers Hardware Reference Manual
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ntroducing the Brocade 7500 series Extension Switches
In this chapter
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“Overview of Brocade 7500 series Extension Switches”
next.
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“Port side of the Extension Switch”
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“Nonport side of the Extension Switch”
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Overview of Brocade 7500 series Extension Switches
The Brocade 7500 Extension Switches
are intended as platforms for Fibre Channel Routing
Services and Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP). Refer to the
Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
for
information on configuring these features. Two 1U models are available: the 7500 and 7500E.
7500 Extension Switch
The Brocade 7500 is shipped with 16 Fibre Channel SFP ports and 2 physical Gigabit Ethernet
(GbE) ports. It includes the Brocade Fabric Operating System (FOS) and is compatible with the
entire Brocade switch family. It can operate independently or in a fabric containing multiple
Extension Switches.
The Brocade 7500 Extension Switches provide the following features:
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Rack mountable 1U chassis
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2 redundant, hot-swappable power supplies
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3 internal temperature sensors
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3 redundant, hot-swappable fan FRUs. Each fan FRU has two fans (for a total of 6 fans). Only
one fan speed is displayed per FRU using the fanShow command
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16 Fibre Channel SFP ports supporting Fibre Channel Routing Services with link speeds up to
1-, 2-, or 4-Gbps
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Two 1 GbE ports supporting the FCIP and Fibre Channel Routing Services features with
transmit link speeds up to 1-Gbps on each port:
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Each GbE port can support up to 8 FCIP tunnels
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Each FCIP tunnel is represented and managed as a Fibre Channel E_Port
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Fibre Channel Routing Services functionality can be used over the FCIP link
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Fabrics connected through FCIP merge if the ports are configured as VE_Ports, and do not
merge if they are configured as VEX_Ports. If VE_Ports are used in a Fibre Channel Routing
Services backbone fabric configuration, then the backbone fabric merges but the EX_Port
attached to edge fabrics do not merge. For more information see the
Fabric OS
Administrator’s Guide
.
