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Appendix B. Application blades
This appendix contains specification information about optional application blades
FR4-18i blade
The FR4-18i blade has 16 physical Fibre Channel SFP ports supporting the Fibre
Channel Routing Services, and two physical Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) SFP ports
supporting the Fibre Channel Over IP (FCIP) feature. It operates with the Fabric
Operating System and can communicate with another FR4-18i or a SAN04B–R for
both Fibre Channel Routing services and FCIP.
The FR4-18i blade is intended as a platform for Fibre Channel Routing Services
and FCIP. Refer to the Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide for information on
configuring these features.
The FR4-18i blade provides the following features:
v 16 Fibre Channel SFP ports supporting the Fibre Channel Routing Services with
link speeds up to 1, 2, or 4 Gbps.
v 2 GbE ports supporting the FCIP and Fibre Channel Routing Services with fixed
link speed at 1 Gbps:
– Each GbE port can support up to eight FCIP tunnels.
– Each FCIP tunnel is represented and managed as a virtual Fibre Channel
E_Port.
– Fibre Channel Routing Services can be used over the FCIP link.
– Fabrics connected through FCIP merge if the ports are configured as
VE_Ports, and do not merge if they are configured as VEX_Ports. If VE_Ports
are used in a Fibre Channel Routing Services backbone fabric configuration,
then the backbone fabric merges, but the EX_Port-attached edge fabrics do
not merge. For more information refer to the Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide.
FX8-24 blade
The FX8-24 blade has 12 external Fibre Channel (FC) SFP ports supporting the
Fibre Channel Routing Services and 10 external 1 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE or GE)
SFP ports supporting the Fibre Channel Over IP (FCIP) feature. There are also 2
licensable external 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE or 10GE) SFP ports supporting FCIP.
It operates with the Fabric Operating System and can communicate with another
FX8-24 or a SAN06B-R for both Fibre Channel Routing Services and FCIP. The GbE
ports on the FX8-24 are not compatible with the GbE ports on the FR4-18i blade or
the SAN04B–R switch.
Note: The port diagram on the front panel of the blade uses the abbreviations GE
for 1 GbE and 10GE for 10 GbE ports.
The FX8-24 operates in one of three modes: 1) ten 1 GbE ports, 2) ten 1GbE ports
and one 10 GbE port, or 3) two 10 GbE ports depending on licensing and
subsequent configuration of GbE port mode. If operating in 10GbE mode the other
end of the circuit must also be an FX8-24 operating in either 10GbE mode or dual
mode with the corresponding VE_ports in 10GbE mode.
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