Brocade Fabric OS Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) - Manual (Page 81)

Port blade terminology, numbering, and platform support (Continued) TABLE 9
Supported on:
Blade Blade ID
(slotshow) DCX family DCX 8510
family
Ports Definition
FS8-18 68 Yes Yes 16 FC
2
1000BaseT
Ethernet
Brocade Encryption blade that provides
high performance 16-port auto-sensing 8-
Gbps Fibre Channel connectivity with
data cryptographic (encryption and
decryption) and data compression
capabilities.
FC ports are numbered from 0 through
15 from bottom to top.
FCOE10-24 74 Yes Yes 1 24 10-GbE
DCB ports An application blade that provides
Converged Enhanced Ethernet to bridge
a Fibre Channel and Ethernet SAN.
Ports are numbered from 0 through 11
from bottom to top on the left set of ports
and 12 through 23 from bottom to top on
the right set of ports.
FX8-24 75 Yes Yes 12 FC
10 1-GbE
2 10-GbE
Extension blade with 8-Gbps Fibre
Channel, FCIP, and 10-GbE technology.
Port numbering on this blade is as
follows.
On the left side of the blade going from
bottom to top:
• Six FC ports numbered from 0
through 5
• Two 10-GbE ports numbered xge0
and xge1
• Four 1-GbE ports numbered from ge0
through ge3
On the right side of the blade going from
bottom to top:
• Six FC ports numbered from 6
through 11
• Six 1-GbE ports numbered from ge4
through ge9
CP blades
The control processor (CP) blade provides redundancy and acts as the main controller on the Brocade
Backbone. The Brocade DCX and DCX 8510 Backbone families support the CP8 blades.
1 Supported in the Brocade DCX 8510-8, in slot 1 only. Not supported in the Brocade DCX 8510-4.
CP blades
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