PRIMERGY BX600 S2 Basic Unit
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Fibre Channel Switch Blade
The 2/4 Gbit Brocade SilkWorm 4016 Fibre Channel switch blade, hereinafter
referred to as FC switch blade, provides up to ten internal fabric ports to the
server blades and up to six external fabric ports for fast and reliable connection
to an SAN. The FC switch blade automatically adapts to transfer rates of 1 up
to 4 Gbit/s. With the BX600 S2 basic unit it offers transfer rates of 2 Gbit/s
(internal) and 4 Gbit/s (external). A 10/100 Mbit/s RJ45 connection is available
for administration of the FC switch blade across a LAN.
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All features of
Brocade Fabric OS 5.0.4
, the joint software platform for
Brocade fibre channel switches, are available as an operating system for
the FC switch blade. Administration of the FC switch blade is handled by
Fabric Watch
and
Advanced Web Tools
from Brocade.
Figure 58: Fibre Channel Switch Blade
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Besides the 16-ports version the switch blade unit is available as a 12-
ports version with eight internal and four external fabric ports.
The PRIMERGY BX600 S2 base unit can be fitted with two FC switch blades.
The slots for the FC switch blades are on the rear of the base unit (NET3 and
NET4 in
figure 60 on page 108
). Section “
Port Assignment
“ on
page 108
describes how the fibre channel ports of the server blades are assigned to the
FC switch blades.
