Brocade Communications Systems manual Brocade DCX 8510-4 Backbone Overview

	Chapter
Brocade DCX 8510-4 Backbone Overview	1

In this chapter

•Brocade DCX 8510-4 features	1
•Brocade DCX 8510-4 hardware components	2
•Brocade DCX 8510-4 blades	7
•High availability	8
•Reliability	8
•Serviceability	9
•Software features	9
•Security	10
•Network manageability	11

Brocade DCX 8510-4 features

The Brocade DCX 8510-4 is part of Brocade's industry-leading Backbone-class product line, a highly robust class of network switching platform that combines breakthrough performance, scalability, and energy efficiency with long-term investment. Brocade 8510 Backbones are the industry’s most powerful Fibre Channel switching infrastructure, providing the most reliable, scalable, high performance foundation for private cloud storage and highly virtualized environments. They are designed to increase business agility by adapting to dynamic growth and change, providing high availability access to information, and reducing infrastructure and administrative costs.

Key features of the Brocade DCX 8510-4 include:

•Up to 192 16 Gbps external ports in a single chassis, enabling high density SAN configurations with reduced footprint.

•Support for 2, 4, 8, and 16 Gbps auto-sensing Fibre Channel ports. Trunking technology groups up to eight ports to create high performance 128-Gbps ISL trunks between switches.

•The Brocade DCX 8510-4 also supports 10 Gbps FC-type SFPs in 16 Gbps port blades only and also supports 10 GbE SFPs in the FX8-24 application blade. The two types of SFPs are not interchangeable.

•The 10 Gbps ports can be configured manually on only the first eight ports of the 16 Gbps port blades.

•Support for many of the application, port blade, and control processor (CP) blades supported in the Brocade 8510-4 (with the exception of the Core Switch Blade), thereby providing flexible system configurations and fewer types of new blades.

Brocade DCX 8510-4 Backbone Hardware Reference Manual	1
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