Included: - 1 x Brocade X6-8 8-Slot Fibre Channel Gen6 Director with:
- 2 x Brocade Control Processor Blade CPX6
- 2 x Brocade Core Routing Blade with 16x 4x32Gbps QSFP+ Ports CR32-8
- 3 x Fan Modules 60-1003203-05
- 4 x 3000W Power Supply 23-0000161-04
Overview: The Brocade X6 Director with Brocade Fabric Vision technology combines innovative hardware, software, and integrated network sensors to ensure the industry’s highest level of operational stability and redefine application performance. It provides a modular building block for increased scalability to accommodate growth for large-scale enterprise infrastructures. Fabric Vision technology enhances visibility into the health of storage environments, delivering greater control and insight to quickly identify problems and achieve critical Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Breakthrough 32 Gbps performance accelerates application response time by up to 71 percent, eliminating IO bottlenecks, and unleashes the full performance of flash and next-generation Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe)-based storage. And with diverse deployment options, organizations can seamlessly adapt and optimize their businesses to meet nextgeneration storage requirements. Network Innovation for the Virtualized, All-Flash Data Center Digital transformation is pushing mission-critical storage environments to the limit, with users expecting data to be accessible from anywhere, at any time, on any device. Faced with exponential data growth, the network must evolve to enable businesses to thrive in this new era. To meet these dynamic and growing business demands, organizations need to deploy infrastructure that can deliver greater consistency, predictability, and performance. Legacy infrastructure, however, was not designed to support the performance requirements of evolving workloads and flash-based storage technology. In fact, an aging network will impede the performance of an all-flash data center. A new approach to storage networking is needed to enable databases, virtual servers, desktops, and critical applications, and to unlock the full capabilities of flash. By treating the network as a strategic part of a storage environment, organizations can maximize their productivity and efficiency even as they rapidly scale their environments.
Highlights - Enhances operational stability, maximizes application performance, and increases business agility with enterprise-class Gen 6 directors
- Accelerates application response time by up to 71 percent across 32 Gbps links
- Consolidates infrastructure with 128 Gbps Brocade UltraScale ICL connectivity for simpler, flatter, lowlatency fabrics
- Simplifies end-to-end management of large-scale environments by automating monitoring and diagnostics
- Automatically detects degraded application or device performance through integrated network sensors • Extends replication over distance with a highly scalable extension solution for Fibre Channel, IP, and FICON
- Simplifies configuration automation and enables integrated advanced services across the Fabric with standard REST APIs
- Seamlessly integrates next-generation NVMe over Fabrics with Gen 6 Fibre Channel networks without a disruptive rip and replace
- Mitigates risk with backwardcompatibility while further protecting future investments with Gen 7-ready support
Extraordinary Operational Stability - The industry's first integrated network sensors built-in device latency and IOPS metrics automatically detect degraded application or device performance
- IO Insight intelligence optimizes performance and availability
- Automating monitoring and diagnostics simplify end-to-end management of large-scale environments
Accelerated Data Access - 32 Gbps links increase performance for demanding workloads
- 128 Gbps UltraScale ICL connectivity supports infrastructure consolidation
- Line-rate performance on every port improves application response
Specification:
Systems Architecture - Chassis: The Brocade X6-8 provides up to 384 32 Gbps ports or a 512-port equivalent with 128 Gbps (4×32 Gbps) UltraScale ICL ports (32 Gbps×4 QSFP ports). The Brocade X6-4 provides up to 192 32 Gbps ports or a 256-port equivalent with 16 UltraScale ICL ports. Each provides support for (E, F, D, M, SIM, AE, and EX) Fibre Channel ports using 48-port 32 Gbps Fibre Channel blades.
- Control processor: Redundant (active/standby) control processor modules
- Scalability: Full fabric architecture of 239 switches
- Certified maximum: 6,000 active devices per switch; 56 switches, 19 hops in Brocade Fabric OS® (FOS) fabrics; larger fabrics certified as required
- Fibre Channel blades: Brocade FC32-48 port blade provides 48 ports of 32 Gbps Gen 6 Fibre Channel
- Extension blades: Brocade SX6 Extension Blade provides Fibre Channel extension (16×32 Gbps Fibre Channel ports) and IP extension over IP networks (16×1/10 GbE and 2×40 GbE ports)
- Performance:
- Fibre Channel:
- 4 Gbps line speed, full duplex
- 8 Gbps line speed, full duplex
- 10 Gbps line speed, full duplex
- 16 Gbps line speed, full duplex
- 32 Gbps line speed, full duplex
- Autosensing of 4, 8, 16, and 32 Gbps port speeds depending on SFPs used. Speed matching between 4, 8, 16, and 32 Gbps port speeds. 10 Gbps port speeds with dedicated SFPs.
- ISL trunking:
- Frame-based trunking with up to eight 32 Gbps ports per ISL trunk; up to 256 Gbps per ISL trunk.
- Exchange-based load balancing across ISLs with DPS included in Brocade FOS
- UltraScale ICL trunking:
- Chassis-to-chassis linkage through connectors on the Core Routing (CR) blade
- Can configure the following maximum QSFPs per trunk depending on blade type, connecting:
- Up to four 4×32 Gbps QSFP ports in a trunk group to form a 512 Gbps trunk between two Brocade CR32-4 blades. For trunks containing four or fewer QSFP ports, ports in a trunk must be located in the same port group on each blade.
- Up to four 4×32 Gbps QSFP ports in a trunk group to form a 512 Gbps trunk between a Brocade CR32-4 and CR32-8 blade. For trunks containing four or fewer QSFP ports, ports in a trunk must be located in the same port group on each blade.
- A minimum of two QSFP connections are required for a trunk, and up to four 4×16 Gbps QSFP trunks between pairs of Brocade CR32-8 (CR32-4) and CR16-8 (CR16-4).
- Multichassis with UltraScale ICL ports: Up to 4,608 non-blocking 32 Gbps Fibre Channel ports; UtraScale ICL ports (32 for 8-slot or 16 per 4-slot chassis, optical QSFP) connect up to nine chassis in a full mesh topology or up to 12 chassis in a core-edge topology.
- UltraScale ICL bandwidth: 4.096 Tbps; 32 UltraScale ICL ports provide the equivalent of 128 32 Gbps ports. Each UltraScale ICL port provides 128 Gbps bandwidth over a QSFP (32 Gbps×4) link.
- Frame-based trunking is enabled between four UltraScale ICLs. DPS distributes exchanges across all frame trunks.
- Chassis bandwidth: 12.2 Tbps per chassis (384 ports×32 Gbps) data rate + 4.096 Tbps UltraScale ICL bandwidth (32×128 Gbps)
- Slot bandwidth: 1,536 Gbps (line rate)
- Switch latency:
- Brocade FC32-48 blade at Gen 6 32 Gbps speeds: <900 ns (including FEC); any-port-to-any-port local switching and 2.7 μs blade to blade at 32 Gbps, cut-through routing
- Brocade SX6 blade, Fibre Channel to Fibre Channel: <900ns (including FEC) and 2.7 μs any-port-toany-port at 32 Gbps, cut-through routing
- Maximum frame size: 2112-byte payload
- Frame buffers: 15,000 per switching ASIC
- Classes of service: Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames)
- Fibre Channel port types:
- Brocade FC32-48 port blade: F_Port, E_Port, EX_Port, M_Port, SIM, and D_Port
- Brocade SX6 Extension Blade: F_Port, E_Port, and EX_Port on FC, and VE_Port on GbE
- NOTE: 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: Brocade FC32-48 port blade: Supports hot-pluggable Brocade Fibre Channel SFP+ at 32 Gbps SWL/LWL and SFP+ at 16 Gbps SWL/LWL/ELWL, 10 Gbps SWL/LWL SFP Brocade SX6 Extension Blade: Supports hot-pluggable Brocade Fibre Channel SFP28 at 32 Gbps SWL/LWL; SFP+ at 16 Gbps SWL/LWL/ELWL; SFP at 10 Gbps FC SWL/LWL and Ethernet SFP+ at 1 GbE copper, 1 GbE 1000BASE-SX/LX/CWDM, SFP+ at 10 GbE SR/LR; SFP+ at 10 GbE tunable DWDM 80 km, and QSFP at 40 GbE SR4/LR4/ER4. Core Routing (CR) blades, Brocade CR32-4 and CR32-8: Support hot-pluggable Brocade Fibre Channel QSFP at 4×32 Gbps SWL, 4×16 Gbps SWL and 4×16 Gbps 2 km QSFP for ICL connections
- USB: One USB port per control processor for firmware download, support save, and configuration upload or download
- Fabric services: Adaptive Networking (Traffic Isolation, QoS); BB credit recovery; Brocade Advanced Zoning (default zoning, port/WWN zoning, peer zoning, target-driven zoning, broadcast zoning); Dynamic Path Selection (DPS); Extended Fabrics; FDMI; FICON CUP; Flow Vision; Frame Redirection; FSPF; IPFC; ISL Trunking; Management Server; Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS); N_Port Trunking; NPIV; NTP v3; Port Fencing; Registered State Change Notification (RSCN); Reliable Commit Service (RCS); Simple Name Server
- Extension: Supports DWDM, CWDM, and FC-SONET devices; Fibre Channel, in-flight compression (Brocade LZO) and encryption (AES-GCM-256); BB credit recovery; FCIP, 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)
System Components - Fibre Channel ports: Up to 384 32-Gbps ports, universal (E_Port, F_Port, EX_Port, M_Port, D_Port, SIM Port, FICON)
- Classes of service: Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames)
- ANSI Fibre Channel protocol: FC-PH (Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface standard)
- Fabric initialization: Complies with FC-SW 5.0
- Port to port latency:
- Local switching: 900 ns
- Blade to blade: 2.7 μs
- Switching capacity: An aggregate switching capacity of 13.5 billion frames per second (for Class 2, Class 3, and Class F frames for a 384-port chassis)
High Availability - Architecture: Non-blocking shared memory; passive backplane; redundant active/passive control processor; redundant active/active core switching blades; redundant WWN cards
- Chassis power:
- Four power supplies required for AC Low Line (100 VAC to 120 VAC).
- Two power supplies required for AC High Line (200 VAC to 240 VAC).
- Device ships with three PSUs or empty (3 for 2+1 redundancy). Two provide system power, but four must be installed to provide power efficiency and 2+2 redundancy.
- Cooling: Requires three fan tray assemblies. A failure condition is one failed fan from any fan tray. Each assembly contains two fans for a total of six. The system requires five of six functioning fans for operation in the Brocade X6-8. One fan tray assembly can be hot-swapped and should be replaced immediately in the event of a failure.
- Airflow: Non-port-side intake to port-side exhaust or port-side intake to non-port-side exhaust options are available.
- Solution availability: Designed to provide 99.999 percent uptime capabilities; hot-pluggable redundant power supplies, fans, WWN cards, processors, core switching, port blades, and optics; online diagnostics; non-disruptive firmware download and activation
Management - Management: HTTP, SNMP v1/v3 (FE MIB, FC Management MIB), SSH; Auditing, Syslog; Brocade Advanced Web Tools, Brocade Network Advisor SAN Enterprise or Brocade Network Advisor SAN Professional Plus; Command Line Interface (CLI); SMI-S compliant; RESTful API; trial licenses for add-on capabilities
- Security: DH-CHAP (between switches and end devices), FCAP switch authentication, FIPS 140-2 L2- compliant, HTTPS, IPsec, IP filtering, LDAP with IPv6, OpenLDAP, Port Binding, RADIUS, userdefined Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Secure Copy (SCP), Secure RPC, SFTP, SSH v2, SSL, Switch Binding, TACACS+, Trusted Switch
- Management access: 10/100/1000 Ethernet (RJ-45) per control processor, in-band over Fibre Channel; serial port (RJ-45) and one USB per control processor module; DHCP/DHCPv6; call-home integration enabled through Brocade Network Advisor
- Diagnostics: IO Insight for IO monitoring; ClearLink optics and cable diagnostics, including electrical/optical loopback, link traffic/latency/distance; built-in flow generator; POST and embedded online/offline diagnostics, including environmental monitoring, FCping and Pathinfo (FC traceroute), flow mirroring, frame viewer, non-disruptive daemon restart, optics health monitoring, power monitoring, RAStrace logging, and Rolling Reboot Detection (RRD)
Mechanical - Enclosure: Brocade X6-8 12-blade slots: 14U rack-mountable chassis; 27 in. to 31 in. and 22 in. rail kits for the four-post rack; mid-mount kit for the two-post rack
- Mounting: Rack-mountable in a standard 19-inch EIA cabinet
- Size:
- Height: 61.23 cm (24.11 in., 14U)
- Width: 43.74 cm (17.23 in.)
- Depth: 61.04 cm (24.04 in.)
- System weight:
- 35.61 kg (78.5 lb) for chassis
- 145.8 kg (321.5 lb) for 384-port configuration, fully populated
Environment - Temperature:
- Operating: 0°C to 40°C (32°F to 104°F)
- Non-operating: –25°C to 70°C (–13°F to 158°F)
- Humidity:
- Operating humidity: 5% to 93% RH non-condensing at 40°C (104°F) with a maximum gradient of 10% per hour
- Non-operating humidity: 10% to 93% RH non-condensing at 70°C (158°F)
- Altitude: Up to 3,000 meters (9,842 feet)
- Shock:
- Operating: 10 g, 11 ms, half sine wave
- Non-operating: 20 g, 11 ms, half sine wave
- Vibration:
- Operating: 5 Hz to 10 Hz @ +5 db/Oct; 10 Hz to 200 Hz @ 0.0005 Grms; 200 Hz to 500 Hz @ –5 db/Oct; scale 0.05 Grms
- Non-operating: 3 Hz to 10 Hz @ +5 db/Oct; 10 Hz to 200 Hz @ 0.0065 Grms; 200 Hz to 500 Hz @ –5db/Oct; scale 1.12 Grms
- Heat dissipation:
- 384-port configuration: Typical: 8,836 BTU/hr; Max: 14,485 BTU/hr Power consumed: Typical: 2,589 W; Max: 4,244 W
- Note: Input power is at 200 VAC with full PSU redundancy
Power - Supported power range:
- Input Voltage:
- Range: 85 VAC to 264 VAC Auto-volt
- Nominal: 100 VAC to 240 VAC
- Power:
- 85 to 132 VAC: 1,450 W
- 180 to 264 VAC: 2,870 W
- In-rush current: 35 Amps maximum, peak
- Frequency: 50 Hz to 60 Hz (Nominal: 50 Hz to 60 Hz)
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