Fujitsu BX600 S2 manual Fibre Channel Switch Blade

10 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.

IAll 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

IBesides 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.

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