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VDX 2730
The Brocade VDX 2730 10GbE Connection Blade for the Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX900 and BX400 Blade Servers is
a 10 Gbps Ethernet Data Center Bridging (DCB) embedded switch module that provides six external native
8-Gbps or 4-Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) ports, and six external 10-Gbps Ethernet ports, allowing you to combine
storage and network traffic on a single network. The Brocade VDX 2730 also provides 18 internal 10GBASE-KR
ports with DCB support that connects to the Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX Blade Servers by way of a passive midplane.
1. Port LED (one for each port)
2. Release lever
3. System LEDs
4. Reset button
5. Six 10-Gbps Ethernet ports
6. Six 8-Gbps FC ports
Hardware Feature Descriptions
The VDX 2730 is custom-designed for the Fujitsu PRIMERGY blade server chassis. The following hardware-
specific features are related to this module.
• Six external Data Center Bridging (DCB) ports provide device or additional switch connections at
10 Gbps.
• Eighteen internal 10GBASE-KR ports are provided that support DCB.
• Six external FC ports can be used for Brocade fabric connections at 4 Gbps or 8 Gbps using
SFP (4 Gbps) or SFP+ (8 Gbps) fiber-optic transceivers.
• Auto-sensing capabilities detect 4-Gbps or 8-Gbps SAN switches.
• Transceivers for FC ports
Short-wavelength (SWL) and long-wavelength (LWL) SFP and SFP+ transceivers (4 Gbps and 8 Gbps
respectively) for fiber-optic capabilities are supported.
• Transceivers for Ethernet ports
• Ultra-short-range (USR), short-range (SR), and long-range (LR) SFP+ transceivers (10 Gbps) for
Ethernet and Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) capabilities are supported.
• Brocade active twinaxial (TWX) cables (1, 3, and 5 meters) are supported.
• Multi-Mode Fibre (MMF) at the FC and Ethernet ports and Single-Mode Fibre (SMF up to 10 km)
modules are supported.