McDATA® 4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem Installation Guide (AA-RW1XC-TE, November 2006)

14 General description
Fibre Channel ports
The switch has 2 external Fibre Channel ports through which to connect to devices or other switches, and 8
internal ports connecting to the server backplane. Each of the external Fibre Channel ports is served by a
Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) optical transceiver and is capable of 1-Gb/s, 2-Gb/s, or 4-Gb/s
transmission. SFPs are hot-pluggable. External ports can self-discover both the port type and transmission
speed when connected to public devices or other switches. The internal ports operate at 2-Gb/s.
The external ports are named Ext:0, Ext:9 and are labeled 0 and 9 as shown in Figure 4. The external port
LEDs provide port login and activity status information. Internal ports are named Int:1–Int:8 and numbered
1–8. The ports 1–8 correspond to server blade slots 1–8 in the server chassis.
Figure 4 Fibre Channel ports
External port LEDs
Each external port has its own Logged-in LED and Activity LED as shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5 External port LEDs
0
9
External ports
Logged-in LEDs
Activity LEDs
0
9