Brocade Communications Systems manual Brocade 5300 Specifications, Systems Architecture

Figure 1.

Simplified SAN deployments support greater consolidation.

Servers

16-port switches fully licensed

16-port switches fully licensed

	16-port switches
	8 ports licensed
14 Links	Storage
2 Links
Total Switches:	12
Ports for Devices:	100
Ports for ISLs:	56
Licensed Ports Free:	4
Unlicensed Ports:	32

Servers

80-port Brocade 5300 Switches

64 ports licensed

Storage

Total Switches:	2
Ports for Devices:	100
Ports for ISLs:	0
Licensed Ports Free:	28
Unlicensed Ports:	32

Brocade 5300 SPECIFICATIONS

Systems Architecture

Fibre Channel ports	80 ports, universal (E, F, M, EX, and FL)
Scalability	Full fabric architecture with 239 switches maximum
Certified maximum	Single Brocade FOS fabric: 56 domains, 19 hops
	Single Brocade M-EOS fabric: 31 domains, 3 hops
	Larger fabrics certified as required; consult
	Brocade or OEM SAN design documents for
	configuration details
Performance	1.063 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex;
	2.125 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex;
	4.25 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex;
	8.5 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex;
	auto-sensing of 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gbit/sec port speeds;
	optionally programmable to fixed port speed; speed
	matching between 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gbit/sec ports
ISL Trunking	Frame-based trunking with up to eight 8 Gbit/sec ports
	per ISL trunk with optional license; up to 64 Gbit/sec
	per ISL trunk (8 ports × 8 Gbit/sec [data rate])
	Exchange-based load balancing across ISLs with
	DPS included in Fabric OS
Aggregate bandwidth	640 Gbit/sec: 80 ports × 8 Gbit/sec (data rate)

Fabric latency	Locally switched ports 700 ns, latency between port
	groups less than 2.1 µsec with no contention,
	cut-through routing at 8 Gbit/sec between locally
	switched groups
Maximum frame size	2112-byte payload
Frame buffers	1460 dynamically allocated, 268 maximum per port
Classes of service	Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames)
Port types	FL_Port, F_Port, M_Port (Mirror Port), E_Port,
	EX_Port (Fibre Channel Integrated Routing); self-
	discovery based on switch type (U_Port); optional
	port type control
Data traffic types	Fabric switches supporting unicast, multicast
	(255 groups) and broadcast
USB	1 USB port for firmware download, support save,
	and configuration upload/download
Media types	4 Gbit/sec: Requires Brocade hot-pluggable,
	Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP), LC connector;
	4 Gbit/sec Short-Wavelength Laser (SWL);
	4 Gbit/sec Long-Wavelength Laser (LWL);
	4 Gbit/sec Extended Long-Wavelength Laser (ELWL);
	distance depends on fiber-optic cable and port speed
	8 Gbit/sec: Requires Brocade hot-pluggable SFP+,
	LC connector; 8 Gbit/sec Short-Wavelength Laser
	(SWL); 8 Gbit/sec Long-Wavelength Laser (LWL);
	distance depends on fiber-optic cable and port
	speed