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Ports
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The Brocade DCX-4S has 8 slots that contain control processor, core, port, and AP blades:
•Slot numbers 4 and 5 contain CPs.
•Slot numbers 3 and 6 contain core blades.
•Slot numbers 1 and 2, and 7 and 8 contain port and AP blades.
NOTE
The Core blades for the Brocade DCX (CORE8) and the Brocade DCX-4S (CR4S-8) are not
interchangeable between the two products.
When you have port blades with different port counts in the same director (for example, 16-port
blades and 32-port blades, or 16-port blades and 18-port blades with 16 FC ports and 2 GbE ports,
or 16-port and 48-port blades), the area IDs no longer match the port numbers. Table 3 lists the
port numbering schemes for the Brocade 48000, and the Brocade DCX and DCX-4S
enterprise-class platforms.
TABLE 3 Port numbering schemes for the Brocade 48000, Brocade DCX and DCX-4S enterprise-class
platforms
Port blades Numbering scheme
FC2-16
FC4-16
FC8-16
Ports are numbered from 0 through 15 from bottom to top.
FC4-32
FC8-32
Ports are numbered from 0 through 15 from bottom to top on the left set of ports and 16 through
31 from bottom to top on the right set of ports.
FC4-48
FC8-48
Ports are numbered from 0 through 23 from bottom to top on the left set of ports and 24 through
47 from bottom to top on the right set of ports.
FC8-64 Ports are numbered from 0 through 32 from bottom to top on the left set of ports and 33 through
64 from bottom to top on the right set of ports.
FC10-6 Ports are numbered from 0 through 5 from bottom to top.
FC4-16IP Fibre Channel ports are numbered from 0 through 7 from bottom to top. There are also 8 GbE
ports (numbered ge0 – ge7, from bottom to top). Going from bottom to top, the 8 FC ports appear
on the bottom, followed by the 8 GbE ports at the top.
FA4-18 Fibre Channel ports are numbered from 0 through 15 from bottom to top. There are also 2 GbE
ports (numbered A0 - A1, from top to bottom) that are for Storage Application manageability
purposes; you cannot address these ports using the CLI.
FR4-18i Ports are numbered from 0 through 15 from bottom to top. There are also 2 GbE ports
(numbered ge0-ge1, from bottom to top). Going from bottom to top, the 2 GbE ports appear on
the bottom of the blade followed by 16 FC ports.
FS8-18 Ports are numbered from 0 through 15 from bottom to top. There are also 2 GbE ports
(numbered ge0-ge1, from top to bottom). Going from top to bottom, the 2 GbE ports appear on
the top of the blade followed by 16 FC ports.
FCOE10-24 Ports are numbered 0 through 11 from bottom to top on the left set of ports and 12 through 24
from bottom to top on the right set of ports.
FX8-24 In the first grouping, there are Fibre Channel ports numbered 0 through 5 from bottom to top on
the left set of ports and 6 through 11 from bottom to top on the right set of ports. In the second
grouping, there are two 10 GbE ports numbered xge0 and xge1 on the left set of ports and two
GbE ports numbered ge4 and ge5 on the right side. In the third grouping, the GbE ports are
numbered ge0 through ge3 on the left set of ports and ge6 through ge9 on the right set of ports.