To Next Page

To Previous Page

4 IBM Flex System FC5022 16Gb SAN Scalable Switch User’s Guide

Features and specifications

The IBM Flex System FC5022 16Gb SAN Scalable Switch supports the following features and

specifications.

Features

• 48 16 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) ports

• Up to 28 internal ports (available through Ports-On-Demand activation) connected to

14 compute nodes at the midplane auto-negotiating to 16 or 8 Gbps FC ports

• Up to 20 external auto-negotiating FC ports (available through Ports-On-Demand activation)

capable of supporting 16, 8, or 4 Gbps speed through 16 or 8 Gbps SFP+ transceivers

• Brocade-branded 8 Gbps and 16 Gbps SFP+ optical transceivers

• Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking (licensable), which allows up to eight ports (at 16, 8, or 4 Gbps

speeds) to combine to form a single, logical ISL with a speed of up to 128 Gbps (256 Gbps full

duplex) for optimal bandwidth utilization, automatic path failover, and load balancing.

• 16, 8, or 4 Gbps FC for open systems

• Two internal 1 Gbps full-duplex Ethernet ports to connect to the redundant management

modules

• Brocade Fabric OS (FOS), which delivers distributed intelligence throughout the network and

enables a wide range of value-added applications, such as Brocade Advanced Web Tools and

Brocade Advanced Fabric Services (on certain models)

• Supports up to 768 Gbps I/O bandwidth

• 420 million frames switch per second, 0.7 microseconds latency

• 8,192 buffers for up to 3,750 Km extended distance at 4 Gbps FC (Extended Fabrics license

required)

• In-flight Fibre Channel compression and decompression support on up to two external ports

(no license required)

• In-flight Fibre Channel encryption and decryption on up to two external ports (no license

required)

• Dynamic Ports on Demand (DPOD) offering the flexibility to scale from 12 ports on the

Base Model (from 24 ports on the ESB Model) up to 48 ports

• 48 Virtual Channels (VCs) per port

• Port mirroring to monitor ingress or egress traffic from any port within the switch

• Two I2C connections able to interface to redundant management modules

• One external RS-232 console port with a mini-USB interface for serial console management

• One external 10/100/1000Base-T RJ-45 Ethernet port with integral LEDs for link/activity and

speed for debugging and field support

• Two LEDs (status, Rx/Tx) per external Fibre Channel port

• System LEDs noting system power, status, and locator.

• Runs from 12V continuous power supplied by the compute node chassis

• Hot pluggable—Up to 4 hot-pluggable switches per IBM Flex System Chassis

• Single fuse circuit

IBM FC5022 User Manual

Questions and Answers: