Brocade Fabric OS Administrator's Guide Supporting Fabric OS v6.3.0 (53-1001336-02, November 2009)

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Blade terminology and compatibility
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CP blades
The control processor (CP) blade provides redundancy and acts as the brains of the
enterprise-class platform. The Brocade 48000 supports the CP256 blade. The Brocade DCX and
DCX-4S support the CP8 blades.
The CP blades in the Brocade DCX and DCX-4S are hot-swappable. When the CPs from a Brocade
DCX are inserted into a Brocade DCX-4S, the switch type changes. The same is true when inserting
a CP blade from a Brocade DCX-4S into a Brocade DCX. When a CP blade with a Fabric OS prior to
v6.2.0 is inserted into a Brocade DCX-4S, the blade becomes faulty. You can correct this issue by
upgrading the firmware on the CP blade in a Brocade DCX or DCX-4S chassis.
48-port 8-Gbps port blade FC8-48 51 A 48-port Brocade platform port blade supporting 1,
2, 4, and 8 Gbps port speeds. The Brocade DCX and
DCX-4S support loop devices on 48-port blades in
Virtual Fabrics-enabled environment. The loop devices
can only be attached to ports on a 48-port blade that
is not a part of the default logical switch.
6-port 10-Gbps port blade FC10-6 39 A 6-port Brocade platform port blade supporting 10
Gbps port speed. Blade provides 10-Gbps ISLs. This
port blade is compatible only with the Brocade 48000
CP blades (using chassis configuration option 5) and
the Brocade DCX and DCX-4S CP blades.
Fibre Channel Router blade FR4-18i 24 A 16-port Fibre Channel routing and FCIP blade that
also has 2 GbE ports and is compatible only with the
Brocade 48000 (using chassis configuration option 5)
and the Brocade DCX and DCX-4S CP blades.
iSCSI Bridge blade FC4-16IP 31 An iSCSI bridge blade that enables bridging of iSCSI
hosts to Fibre Channel fabrics. It has 8 Fibre Channel
optical SFP ports and 8 GbE copper RJ-45 ports. This
blade is currently compatible with the Brocade 48000
CP blades (using chassis configuration option 5).
Fibre Channel Application
blade
FA4-18 33 An application blade that has 16 (1-, 2-, and 4-Gbps)
ports supporting Fibre Channel Application Services
and two 10/100/1000 BaseT Ethernet copper
interfaces supporting blade management.
Brocade Encryption blade FS8-18 43 An application blade that provides high performance
32 port auto-sensing 8 Gbps Fibre Channel
connectivity with data cryptographic
(encryption/decryption) and data compression
capabilities.
Converged Enhanced Ethernet
blade
FCOE10-24 74 An application blade that provides Converged
Enhanced Ethernet to bridge a Fibre Channel and
Ethernet SAN.
DCX Extension blade FX8-24 75 A 24-port Fibre Channel routing and FCIP blade that
also has 10 1-GbE and two 10-GbE ports and is
compatible only with the Brocade DCX and DCX-4S CP
blades.
TABLE 3 Brocade enterprise-class platform terminology and abbreviations (Continued)
Term Abbreviation Blade ID
(slotshow)
Definition