HP DC SAN Backbone Director Switch Hardware Reference Guide

NOTE: The port diagram on the front panel uses the abbreviations GE for 1-GbE ports and 10GE
for 10-GbE ports.
If the FX8-24 blade is operating in 10-GbE mode, the other end of the circuit must be an FX8-24
blade operating in either 10-GbE mode or dual mode with the corresponding VE_Ports in 10-GbE
mode.
IMPORTANT: The 10-GbE SFPs used in the FX8-24 blade are not interchangeable with the 10
Gb/s FC SFPs used in the FC16-32/48 blades.
FX8-24 features
The FX8-24 blade is intended as a platform for FCIP and FC Routing Services. For information on
configuring these features, see the Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide 7.1.0.
The FX8-24 blade provides the following hardware features:
• 12 autosensing FC ports with link speeds of 1, 2, 4, or 8 Gb/s
• Ten GbE ports supporting FCIP with a fixed link speed of 1 Gb/s
• Two 10-GbE ports (licensable) supporting FCIP with a fixed link speed of 10 Gb/s
The FX8-24 blade also provides the following features:
• One IPSec channel (with Fabric OS 6.4.0 and later)
• VEX support (with Fabric OS 6.4.0 and later)
• IPv6 support on 1G and 10G ports (with Fabric OS 6.4.0 and later)
• FCIP
• FC Routing (licensable)
• FCIP Trunking (licensable) with network-based failure recovery (failover only) and load
balancing
• Multiple circuits per trunk
Four per trunk through the GbE ports◦
◦ Ten per trunk through the 10-GbE ports
• SOTCP with reorder resistance
• FastWrite over FCIP
• Virtual E_Ports
• FCIP QoS
• Support for 200-ms RTT (on a limited number of GbE ports)
• Adaptive Rate Limiting (licensable)
• FICON Accelerator (licensable)
• TCP performance graphing in Web Tools
• FCIP Tunnels:
A maximum of 10 FCIP tunnels is allowed for all GbE ports.◦
◦ A maximum of four tunnels is allowed per GbE port.
◦ Two 10 GbE ports that support up to ten FCIP tunnels each.
◦ Individual FCIP tunnels are represented and managed as a virtual FC E_Port.
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