HP Mainframe Connectivity Design Guide

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FICON SANs require Network Advisor Enterprise.
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DCFM = Data Center Fabric Manager. FICON SANs require DCFM Enterprise.
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For information about FICON director-supported blades, see Table 5 (page 32).
Blade support for the SAN Director Switches
This section describes the blades that you can install in the SN8000B 8-Slot Director, SN8000B
4-Slot Director, 2/128 SAN Director, 4/256 SAN Director, DC SAN Backbone Director, and
DC04 SAN Director. You cannot add blades to the other B-series models because they have a
fixed hardware configuration.
This document describes Fibre Channel and FICON blades. Blades that support both Fibre Channel
and FICON can support either protocol. For example, a 32-port blade can support 32 FCP ports,
32 FICON ports, or a mix of FCP and FICON protocols. For more information about Fibre Channel
and iSCSI, see the HP SAN Design Reference Guide.
Table 5 (page 32) identifies the B-series port blades by name, abbreviation, and blade ID. The
blade ID is the value displayed when issuing the slotshow command in the CLI or Web Tools.
Table 5 B-series blades
CompatibilityDescription
Blade ID
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AbbreviationName (slotshow)
Compatible with the DC SAN
Backbone Director
64-port blade supporting 1, 2, 4,
and 8 Gb/s FC port speeds
6
77
FC8-64
1
64-port 8 Gb/s port
blade
Compatible with the SN8000B
4-Slot and SN8000B 8-Slot
32-port blade supporting 4, 8, 10,
and 16 Gb/s FC or FICON port
speeds
2, 3, 6
97FC16-32
32-port 16 Gb/s port
blade Directors only (requires FOS 7.0.0c
or later for FICON).
Compatible with the SN8000B
4-Slot and SN8000B 8-Slot
48-port blade supporting 4, 8, 10,
and 16 Gb/s FC or FICON port
speeds
2, 3, 6, 4
96FC16-48
48-port 16 Gb/s port
blade Directors only (requires FOS 7.0.0c
or later for FICON).
Compatible with the 2/128 SAN
Director only
16-port blade supporting
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2 Gb/s FC port speed
2FC-16
16-port 2 Gb/s port
blade
Compatible with the 2/128 or
4/256 SAN Director only
16-port blade supporting
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1 and 2 Gb/s FC or FICON port
speeds
4FC2-16
16-port 2 Gb/s port
blade
Compatible with the 2/128 or
4/256 SAN Director only
16-port blade supporting 1, 2, and
4 Gb/s FC or FICON port speeds
17FC4-16
16-port 4 Gb/s port
blade
Compatible only with the 4/256
SAN Director using chassis
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FCIP blade that supports 16 1, 2,
and 4 Gb/s FC or FICON ports,
and 2 GbE ports
24FR4-18i
16-port 4 Gb/s port
blade with 2-port 1
GbE (FCIP) capabilities
configuration mode option 5, the
DC04 SAN Director, and the DC
SAN Backbone Director
Compatible with the 4/256 SAN
Director only
32-port blade supporting 1, 2, and
4 Gb/s FC or FICON port speeds
18FC4-32
32-port 4 Gb/s port
blade
Compatible with the 4/256 SAN
Director only (requires FOS 5.2.0a
or later)
48-port blade supporting 1, 2, and
4 Gb/s FC port speeds using
chassis configuration mode option36
FC4-48
5
48-port 4 Gb/s port
blades
5 with port and exchange-based
routing
Compatible only with the 4/256
SAN Director using chassis6-port blade supporting 10 Gb/s
ISL port speed
39FC10-6 ISL
6-port 10 Gb/s ISL
blade configuration mode option 5
(requires FOS 5.2.0a or later), the
32 B-series FICON directors and fabric rules