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Brocade Fabric OS Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) User Manual

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Port blade terminology, numbering, and platform support (Continued)

TABLE 9

Supported on:

Blade

Blade ID
(slotshow)

DCX family DCX 8510

family

Ports

Definition

FC8-64

77

Yes

Yes

64

8-Gbps port blade supporting 2, 4, and 8
Gbps port speeds. The Brocade DCX
and Brocade DCX 8510 Backbone
families support loop devices on 64-port
blades in a Virtual Fabrics-enabled
environment. The loop devices can only
be attached to ports on a 64-port blade
that is not a part of the default logical
switch.

Ports are numbered from 0 through 31
from bottom to top on the left set of ports
and 32 through 63 from bottom to top on
the right set of ports.

FC16-32

97

No

Yes

32

A 32-port, 16-Gbps port blade supporting
2, 4, 8, 10, and 16 Gbps port speeds.

NOTE
10 Gbps speed for FC16-xx blades
requires the 10G license.

Ports are numbered from 0 through 15
from bottom to top on the left set of ports
and 16 through 31 from bottom to top on
the right set of ports.

FC16-48

96

No

Yes

48

A 48-port, 16-Gbps port blade supporting
2, 4, 8, 10, and 16 Gbps port speeds.

NOTE
10 Gbps speed for FC16-xx blades
requires the 10G license.

Ports are numbered from 0 through 23
from bottom to top on the left set of ports
and 24 through 47 from bottom to top on
the right set of ports.

FC16-64

153

No

Yes

64

A 64-port, 16-Gbps port blade supporting
4, 8, and 16 Gbps port speeds. These
ports have 16 QSFPs per blade.

FC Ports are numbered from 0 through
63 from bottom to top. QSFPs are
numberd from 0 through 15 from bottom
to top.

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