HP DC SAN Backbone Director Switch Hardware Reference Guide

◦ FC Routing Services are used over the FCIP link.
◦ Fabrics connected through FCIP merge if the ports are configured as VE_Ports; they do
not merge if they are configured as VEX_Ports. If VE_Ports are used in an FC Routing
Services backbone fabric configuration, then the backbone fabric merges, but the
EX_Port-attached edge fabrics do not merge. For more information, see the Fabric OS
Administrator’s Guide 7.0.1.
• Up to three FC trunking groups:
Trunk group 0: FC ports 0, 1◦
◦ Trunk group 1: FC ports 6, 7
◦ Trunk group 2: FC ports 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11
HP StoreFabric Enhanced Multi Protocol Extension Blade (FX8-24E) overview
The FX8-24E blade has 12 external 8 Gb FC SFP ports supporting FC Routing Services, and 10
external 1 Gb Ethernet (GbE or GE) SFP ports supporting FCIP. There are also two licensable
external 10-Gb Ethernet (10-GbE or 10-GE) SFP ports supporting FCIP.
The FX8-24E operates in one of three modes:
• Ten 1-GbE ports
• Ten 1-GbE ports and one 10-GbE port
• Two 10-GbE ports (depends on licensing and subsequent configuration of GbE port mode)
FX8-24E blade provides IPsec capability on both the 10-GbE links.
NOTE: The port diagram on the front panel uses the abbreviations GE for 1-GbE ports and 10GE
for 10-GbE ports. If the FX8-24E blade is operating in 10-GbE mode, the other end of the circuit
must be an FX8-24E blade operating in either 10-GbE mode or dual mode with the corresponding
VE_Ports in 10-GbE mode.
FX8-24E features
The FX8-24E 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 FX8-24E 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 FX8-24E blade also provides the following features:
• 2 IPSec channels (with Fabric OS 7.1.0a 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
• FCIP
• FC Routing (licensable)
• FCIP Trunking (licensable) with network-based failure recovery (failover only) and load
balancing
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