HP DC SAN Backbone Director Switch Hardware Reference Guide

• 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.
◦ 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 a 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
DC SAN Director 10/24 FCoE blade (FCOE10-24) overview
The FCOE10-24 blade has 24 10-GbE FCoE ports that enable transmission of FC frames over an
Ethernet network via encapsulation in standard Ethernet packets. This complies with Converged
Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) standards, a low-latency, lossless Ethernet standard. This does not require
dedicated Ethernet lines, but uses existing Ethernet infrastructure to reduce costs.
The FCOE10-24 blade supports optical cabling and transceivers (SFP+) only.
Features of the FCOE10-24 blade
There are no licensing requirements for functionality on the FCOE10-24. For information on
configuring features, see the Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide.
The FCOE10-24 blade provides the following hardware features:
• 24 FCoE ports operating at 10 Gb/s
• 32 FC ports operating at 8 Gb/s through the backplane
• Hot pluggable
• I2C Management interface through the backplane
118 Intelligent blades