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

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ASpecifications
This appendix contains the specifications for the McDATA 4Gb SAN Switch. See ”General description” on
page 11 for the location of all connections, switches, controls, and components.
Fibre Channel specifications
Table 5 Fibre Channel specifications
Item Specification
Fibre Channel protocols FC-PH Rev. 4.3
FC-PH-2
FC-PH-3
FC-AL Rev 4.6
FC-AL-2 Rev 7.0
FC-FLA
FC-GS
FC-GS-2
FC-GS-3
FC-FG
FC-Tape
FC-VI
FC-SW-2
FC Element MIB RFC 2837
Fibre Alliance MIB Version 4.0
Fibre Channel classes of service Classes 2 and 3
Modes of operation Fibre Channel Classes 2 and 3, connectionless
Port Types G_Port, GL_Port
F_Port, FL_Port
E_Port
Port characteristics All ports are auto-discovering and self-configuring.
Number of Fibre Channel ports 2 external 1-Gb/s/2-Gb/s/4-Gb/s ports
8 internal 2-Gb/s ports
Scalability Maximum of 31 switches. See the SAN Design
Guide for latest supported configurations.
Maximum user ports 3850 ports depending on configuration. See the
SAN Design Guide for latest supported
configurations.
Buffer credits 8 buffer credits per port, ASIC embedded memory
Media type SFP optical transceiver, hot-pluggable
Fabric port speed 1.0625, 2.125, or 4.250 Gb/s
Maximum frame size 2148 bytes (2112 byte payload)