Brocade Communications Systems Extension Switch User Manual

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31 May 2012

Brocade 7800
Extension Switch

Hardware Reference Manual

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Document History

Title Publication number Summary of changes Date

Brocade 7800 Extension Switch
Hardware Reference Manual

Brocade 7800 Extension Switch
Hardware Reference Manual

Brocade 7800 Extension Switch
Hardware Reference Manual

Brocade 7800 Extension Switch
Hardware Reference Manual

53-1001350-01 New document July 2009

53-1001350-02 BSMI statement updated. October 2011

53-1001350-03 Auto MDI/MDIX support

added. Copper and optical
port clarifications added.

53-1001350-04 Chinese regulatory

statement added

February 2012

May 2012

Contents

About this document

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

Supported hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

What’s new in this document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

Document conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

Text formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

Command syntax conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

Command examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ix

Notes, cautions, and warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Key terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Brocade resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Other industry resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Optional Brocade Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Getting technical help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

Chapter 1 Introducing the Brocade 7800 Extension Switch

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Overview of Brocade 7800 Extension Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Brocade 7800 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Port side of the Brocade 7800. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Nonport side of the Brocade 7800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Brocade 7800 management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Chapter 2 Installing and configuring the Brocade 7800

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Installation and safety considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Items included with the Brocade 7800 Extension Switch . . . . . . . . . 8

Setting up the Brocade 7800 Extension Switch as a standalone

unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Installing in an EIA cabinet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

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Initial setup of the Brocade 7800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Providing power to the switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Creating a serial connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Connecting to the Brocade 7800 using the serial connection . 11

Setting the switch IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Changing the switch name and chassis name . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Creating an Ethernet connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Setting the Brocade 7800 domain ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Setting the Brocade 7800 date and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Synchronizing local time with an external source . . . . . . . . . . .14

Correcting the time zone of a Brocade 7800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

FCIP and Fibre Channel routing services configuration . . . . . . 16

Installing SFPs and cabling the Brocade 7800 . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Verifying correct operation and backup the configuration . . . . 17

Recommendations for cable management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Chapter 3 Operating the Brocade 7800 Extension Switch

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

LED activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

LEDs on the port side of the Extension Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

LEDs on the nonport side of the Brocade 7800 . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Interpreting POST results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Brocade 7800 maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Powering off the Brocade 7800. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Appendix A Product specifications

In this appendix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Brocade 7800 components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Weight and physical dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Facility requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Power supply specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Environmental requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Power cords (Japan, Denan). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

General specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Data transmission ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Memory specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Fibre Channel port specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

GbE port specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Serial port specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

POST and boot specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

POST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Boot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

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Index

Regulatory compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

FCC warning (US only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

KCC statement (Republic of Korea) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

VCCI statement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Power cords (Japan Denan). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

China statement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

BSMI statement (Taiwan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

CE Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

Canadian requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Laser compliance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

RTC battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Electrical safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Regulatory certifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

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About this document

In this chapter

•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

•Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

•What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

•Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

•Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

•Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

•Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

How this document is organized

This document is organized to help you find the information that you need as quickly and easily as
possible. The document begins with an introduction to the Brocade 7800 and proceeds through
installation and operation procedures.

The document contains the following components:

• Chapter 1, “Introducing the Brocade 7800 Extension Switch” provides a brief overview of the

Brocade 7800 itself.

• Chapter 2, “Installing and configuring the Brocade 7800” describes the installation procedures

for the Brocade 7800.

• Chapter 3, “Operating the Brocade 7800 Extension Switch” provides an overview of Brocade

7800 operation.

• Appendix A, “Product specifications” provides all of the technical specifications for the Brocade

7800.

Supported hardware and software

Although many different software and hardware configurations are tested and supported by
Brocade Communications Systems, documenting all possible configurations and scenarios is
beyond the scope of this document.

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What’s new in this document

The Chinese regulatory statement has been added. “China statement.”

Document conventions

This section describes text formatting conventions and important notice formats used in this
document.

Text formatting

The narrative-text formatting conventions that are used are as follows:

bold text Identifies command names

Identifies the names of user-manipulated GUI elements
Identifies keywords and operands
Identifies text to enter at the GUI or CLI

italic text Provides emphasis

Identifies variables
Identifies paths and Internet addresses
Identifies document titles

code text Identifies CLI output

Identifies command syntax examples

For readability, command names in the narrative portions of this guide are presented in mixed
lettercase: for example, switchShow. In actual examples, command lettercase is often all
lowercase. Otherwise, this manual specifically notes those cases in which a command is case
sensitive.

Command syntax conventions

Command syntax in this manual follows these conventions:

command Commands are printed in bold.

--option, option Command options are printed in bold.

-argument, arg Arguments.

[ ] Optional element.

variable Variables are printed in italics. In the help pages, values are underlined

enclosed in angled brackets < >.

... Repeat the previous element, for example “member[;member...]”

value Fixed values following arguments are printed in plain font. For example,

--show WWN

or

| Boolean. Elements are exclusive. Example:

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Command examples

NOTE

ATTENTION

CAUTION

DANGER

This book describes how to perform configuration tasks using the Fabric OS command line
interface, but does not describe the commands in detail. For complete descriptions of all
Fabric OS commands, including syntax, operand description, and sample output, see the
Fabric OS Command Reference.

Notes, cautions, and warnings

The following notices and statements are used in this manual. They are listed below in order of
increasing severity of potential hazards.

A note provides a tip, guidance or advice, emphasizes important information, or provides a
reference to related information.

An Attention statement indicates potential damage to hardware or data.

A Caution statement alerts you to situations that can be potentially hazardous to you.

A Danger statement indicates conditions or situations that can be potentially lethal or
extremely hazardous to you. Safety labels are also attached directly to products to warn of
these conditions or situations.

Key terms

For definitions specific to Brocade and Fibre Channel, see the Brocade Glossary.

For definitions of SAN-specific terms, visit the Storage Networking Industry Association online
dictionary at:

http://www.snia.org/education/dictionary

Notice to the reader

This document may contain references to the trademarks of the following corporations. These
trademarks are the properties of their respective companies and corporations.

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These references are made for informational purposes only.

Corporation Referenced Trademarks and Products

Microsoft Corporation Windows, HyperTerminal, NT, 2000, 2003, ME, XP

Additional information

This section lists additional Brocade and industry-specific documentation that you might find
helpful.

Brocade resources

To get up-to-the-minute information, join MyBrocade. It’s free! Go to http://www.brocade.com
and click MyBrocade to register at no cost for a user ID and password.

For practical discussions about SAN design, implementation, and maintenance, you can obtain

Building SANs with Brocade Fabric Switches through:

http://www.amazon.com

For additional Brocade documentation, visit the Brocade SAN Info Center and click the
Resource Library location:

http://www.brocade.com

Release notes are available on the MyBrocade Web site and are also bundled with the Fabric
OS firmware.

Other industry resources

• White papers, online demos, and data sheets are available through the Brocade Web site

at http://www.brocade.com/products/software.jhtml.

• Best practice guides, white papers, data sheets, and other documentation is available

through the Brocade Partner Web site.

For additional resource information, visit the Technical Committee T11 Web site. This Web site
provides interface standards for high-performance and mass storage applications for Fibre
Channel, storage management, and other applications:

http://www.t11.org

For information about the Fibre Channel industry, visit the Fibre Channel Industry Association
Web site:

http://www.fibrechannel.org

Optional Brocade Features

Optional Brocade features include:

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Advanced Performance Monitoring
Enables more effective end-to-end SAN performance analysis to enhance performance tuning,
increase productivity, optimize resource utilization, and reduce costs.

Extended Fabrics
Supports the reliable, high-speed connectivity over dark fiber or Dense Wave Division
Multiplexing (DWDM) equipment at distances up to 500 km to enhance business continuance
operations.

Fabric Watch
Continuously monitors SAN fabrics for potential faults based on thresholds set for a variety of
SAN fabric elements and events—automatically alerting administrators to potential problems
before they become costly failures.

ISL Trunking
Optimizes the performance and availability of SAN fabrics while simplifying ISL management.
Two 4 Gbps Brocade switches can automatically group up to eight ISLs into a single logical
“trunk” with a total throughput of up to
32 Gbps.

Advanced Zoning
Automatically groups SAN fabric-connected devices into logical zones that restrict access to
“member” devices in the zone. Advanced Zoning uses hardware enforcement at both the port
and WWN level to provide more robust data protection.

Secure Fabric OS
Provides a comprehensive security solution to help protect mission-critical data. Key features
include centralized policy-based security management, management data encryption, and
authentication to create a fabric-wide trusted environment with control over all levels of fabric
access and communication.

®

FICON
Enables IBM host-based management programs to manage FICON fabric switches in-band by
sending commands to the Fabric OS emulated control device.

CUP

Getting technical help

Contact your Brocade 7800 support supplier for hardware, firmware, and software support,
including product repairs and part ordering. To expedite your call, have the following
information available:

1. General Information

• Brocade 7800 model

• Brocade 7800 operating system version

• Error numbers and messages received

• supportSave command output

• Detailed description of the problem, including the Brocade 7800 or fabric behavior

immediately following the problem, and specific questions

• Description of any troubleshooting steps already performed and the results

• Serial console and Telnet session logs

• syslog message logs

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2. Brocade 7800 Serial Number

The Brocade 7800 serial number and corresponding bar code are provided on the serial
number label, as illustrated below.:

*FT00X0054E9*

FT00X0054E9

The serial number label is located as follows:

• Brocade 200E—On the nonport side of the chassis

• Brocade 300, 4100, 4900, 5100, 5300, 7500, 7800, 8000, and Brocade Encryption

Switch—On the switch ID pull-out tab located inside the chassis on the port side on the
left

• Brocade 5000—On the switch ID pull-out tab located on the bottom of the port side of

the switch

• Brocade 7600—On the bottom of the chassis

• Brocade 48000—Inside the chassis next to the power supply bays

• Brocade DCX—On the bottom right on the port side of the chassis

• Brocade DCX-4S—On the bottom left on the non-port side of the chassis

3. World Wide Name (WWN)

Use the wwn command to display the product WWN.

If you cannot use the wwn command because the product is inoperable, you can get the
WWN from the same place as the serial number, except for the Brocade DCX. For the
Brocade DCX, access the numbers on the WWN cards by removing the Brocade logo plate
at the top of the nonport side of the chassis.

Document feedback

Quality is our first concern at Brocade and we have made every effort to ensure the accuracy
and completeness of this document. However, if you find an error or an omission, or you think
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Chapter

Introducing the Brocade 7800 Extension Switch

In this chapter

• “Overview of Brocade 7800 Extension Switch” next

• “Port side of the Brocade 7800” on page 4

• “Nonport side of the Brocade 7800” on page 5

• “Brocade 7800 management” on page 5

Overview of Brocade 7800 Extension Switch

The Brocade 7800 Extension Switch is intended as a platform for Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP). This
enables transmission of Fibre Channel data over long distances via IP networks by wrapping Fibre
Channel frames in IP packets. Each end of the FCIP communication path must be a compatible
FCIP device, either the Brocade 7800 or the FX8-24 blade in a DCX-family chassis.

A minimum level of Brocade Fabric Operating System (FOS) 6.3 is required to use the Brocade

7800.

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Refer to the Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide for information on configuring these features.

The base model of the switch is shipped with six Fibre Channel SFP ports and two physical Gigabit
Ethernet (GbE) ports active. It includes FOS 6.3 and is compatible with the entire Brocade switch
family. It can operate independently or in a fabric containing multiple Extension Switches.

A fully licensed Brocade 7800 provides the following functionality features:

• FCIP capability

• Up to 8 FCIP tunnels.

• Each FCIP tunnel is represented and managed as a virtual Fibre Channel E_Port (VE_Port).

• Fibre Channel Routing Services functionality 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 one end of the connection is configured as a VEx_Port. If VE_Ports are used in a
Fibre Channel Routing Services backbone fabric configuration, then the backbone fabric
merges but the Ex_Port attached to edge fabrics do not merge. For more information see
the Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide.

• FCIP Trunking with load balancing and network-based failure recovery

• Adaptive Rate Limiting

• Configurable maximum and minimum committed bandwidth per FCIP tunnel

• Minimum rate is guaranteed rate

• FC frame compression before FCIP encapsulation

• Fibre Channel Routing

• SO-TCP with reorder resistance

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• FastWrite over FCIP (not over FC)

• Open Systems Tape Pipelining over FCIP

• XRC acceleration and FICON tape pipelining over FCIP

• FICON CUP

• FCIP QoS

• TCP performance graphing in Web Tools

The Brocade 7800 provides the following hardware features:

• Up to 16 Fibre Channel SFP ports supporting Fibre Channel Routing Services with link

speeds up to 1, 2, 4, or 8 Gbps

• Up to six 1 GbE ports supporting the FCIP and Fibre Channel Routing Services features

with transmit link speeds up to 1-Gbps on each port:

• Two fixed copper RJ-45 ports are provided along with six SFP ports (copper or optical).

You can select either the two fixed copper RJ-45 ports or the first two SFP ports (both
designated as ge0 and ge1) for use (but not both). The SFP ports can be used with
either optical or copper SFPs.

• The SFP ports can be configured to use either optical or copper cabling.

• Rack mountable 1U chassis.

• Two PPC440EPx Processors running @ 667 MHz.

• One GoldenEye2 switch ASIC for 1/2/4/8 Gbps FC switching.

• One Cavium CN 5740 running with eight MIPS cores @ 750 MHz for data path processing

• One Blaster FPGA for FC compression, offloads like checksum generation/checks, etc.

• One 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet port for management interface.

- This port supports AutoMDI/MDIX.

• One RJ45 terminal port.

• One USB port that provides storage for firmware updates, output of the supportSave

command and storage for configuration uploads and downloads.

• Two redundant, hot-swappable combined power supply/fan assembly FRUs.

• Five internal temperature sensors.

Brocade 7800 Features

The following table compares features supported on the base and fully upgraded Brocade

7800. It also shows optionally licensed features.

TABLE 1 Feature comparison - base 7800 and with the Upgrade License

Feature Base 7800 with Upgrade

License

Number of Fibre Channel ports 4 16

Number of GbE ports 2 6

Fibre Channel routing between remote fabrics for fault
isolation

FCIP Tunnel Yes Yes

Number of FCIP tunnels 2 8

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TABLE 1 Feature comparison - base 7800 and with the Upgrade License

Feature Base 7800 with Upgrade

License

FCIP Trunking Yes

Adaptive Rate Limiting Yes

FC frame compression Yes Yes

Storage optimized TCP Yes Yes

Fast Write over FCIP tunnel Yes Yes

Open Systems Tape Pipelining over FCIP tunnel No Yes

FICON XRC emulation and Tape Pipelining over FCIP No Yes

FICON CUP No Yes

1. Requires IR license

2. Requires Advanced Extension license

3. Requires Advanced FICON Acceleration license

4. Requires FICON CUP license

2

2

Yes

Yes

2

2

3

4

1

• Before the installation of the Upgrade License, ports beyond the basic four FC and two GbE

are shown as Disabled with the switchShow command.

• On the base 7800, the two SFP ports (ge0 and ge1) can be configured for use with either

copper or optical cables.

• FC frame compression is not the same as IP compression and is disabled by default. It can

be enabled using the portCfg command. For more information see the Fabric OS
Administrator’s Guide.

• FCIP tunnel bandwidth has a minimum rate of 1544 Kbps (T1 rate). Configuration

requests of lower rates will be rejected.

• FCIP Trunking is available which will “virtualize” two or more TCP connections (circuits) as

part of a single FCIP tunnel. Up to four circuits can be configured for a single FCIP tunnel.
See the Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide for details on explicitly configuring circuits.

• Multiple FCIP tunnels can share the same GbE port. At the same time, VE_ and VEx_Ports

are not associated with a single physical GbE port.

Available licenses

The following features are available with the purchase of a specific license key for the Brocade

7800.

• Advanced Extension

• Integrated Routing (IR)

• Advanced Acceleration for FICON

• FICON CUP

• Extended Fabric

• Adaptive Networking

• Server Application Optimization

• ISL Trunking

• Fabric Watch

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• Advanced Performance Monitoring

For information on these features, see the Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide.

Port side of the Brocade 7800

Figure 1 shows the port side of the 7800 Extension Switch.

FIGURE 1 Port side view

1 System Power LED 6 Fibre Channel Ports (16)

2 System Status LED 7 GbE ports - copper RJ45(2)

3 Console Port (RJ45) 8 GbE ports - optical or copper SFP (6)

4 Ethernet Management Port 9 Serial number pull-out tab

5 USB Port

The Fibre Channel ports are numbered from left to right on the faceplate (see Figure 2).

FIGURE 2 Port numbering in the Brocade 7800 Extension Switch

1 Fibre Channel Ports 0 through 3 3 GbE ports ge0-ge1 (fixed copper

RJ-45 only)

2Fibre Channel Ports 4 through 15 4GbE ports ge0 through ge5 - (SFP -

optical or copper)

You can have two trunking groups on a fully licensed Brocade 7800. Groups 1 would consist of

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Figure 3 shows the nonport side of the Brocade 7800 Extension Switch, which contain the

combined power supplies and fans.

FIGURE 3 Nonport side of the Brocade 7800 Extension Switch

1 Fan and Power Supply Assembly 2 7 Fan assembly 1

2 Fan and Power Supply Assembly 1 8 FRU LED

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3 Fan assembly 2 9 Power supply 1

4 FRU LED 10 Fan assembly 1

5 Power supply 2 11 FRU handle

6 Fan assembly 2 12 FRU handle

Brocade 7800 management

You can use the management functions built into the Brocade 7800 to monitor the fabric
topology, port status, physical status, and other information to help you analyze switch
performance and to accelerate system debugging.

The Brocade 7800 automatically perform a power-on self-test (POST) each time it is turned on.
Any errors are recorded in the error log. For more information about POST, see “POST and boot

specifications” on page 35.

For information about upgrading the version of Fabric OS installed on your Brocade 7800, see
the Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide.

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