Installation guide

Product Overview

● Product features..............................................................................................................11

● Hardware components.................................................................................................... 12

● Supported Line cards...................................................................................................... 15

● High availability............................................................................................................... 18

Product features

The Brocade device described in this guide is part of the Brocade Next Generation Data Center

Networks product line, a highly robust class of network switching platforms that combines breakthrough

performance, scalability, and energy efficiency with long-term investment. These chassis are designed

to address the data growth and application demands of evolving enterprise data centers.

The Brocade device features the Brocade CloudPlex

™

architecture, a fabric-based Ethernet technology

that can present virtual desktops over a global network that integrates both static and cloud-based

resources.

The Brocade device requires Brocade Network Operating System (Network OS) v3.0.0 or later. For

details about Network OS, refer to the Network OS Administration Guide.

A key, licensable feature of the Brocade device is Brocade VCS

technology, which includes virtual

cluster switching, a new set of technologies that allows users to create flatter, virtualized, and highly

available data center networks. VCS fabrics are scalable, permitting users to expand at their own pace,

and simplified, allowing users to manage the fabric as a single entity. VCS fabrics are convergence-

capable, supporting technologies such as iSCSI and network access server (NAS) as well as Fibre

Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) (licensable) for storage.

Key features of the Brocade device include:

• A variety of external port types and speeds in supported line card modules

• Dual, redundant management modules (MMs)

• Up to six switch fabric modules (SFMs)

• Up to eight redundant, hot-swappable power supplies at 220 VAC or -48 VDC

• Up to four hot-swappable fan modules

• Serial (console), Ethernet, and USB connections for management modules

NOTE

USB support is for Brocade-branded USB devices only

• Support for short wavelength (SX) and long wavelength (LX) 1 Gbps SFP transceivers

• Support for (short range (SR) and (long range (LR) 10 Gbps SFP+ transceivers

• Support for 40 Gbps QSFP transceivers

• Support for 100 Gbps CFP2 (SR10 and LR4) optical transceivers

• Support for 10 GbE SFP+ optical transceivers

• Support for 1 GbE optical and copper SFP transceivers

• Support for SFP transceivers that enable you to adapt an SFP slot to a copper GbE interface.

• Support for fixed 10Base-T (RJ-45) copper transceivers

Brocade VDX 8770-8 Hardware Installation Guide

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