Brocade DCX 8510-8 Backbone Hardware Reference Manual - Manual (Page 132)

You can calculate your power requirements by combining the power draws for the various blades and
fan units in your configuration. While you may use fewer ports in a given blade, it is always safer to
use the power requirement of a fully populated blade.
Power demands per component TABLE 23
Blade or fan
units Maximum Power
Draw (Watts) Type of Blade Ports per blade Number of
blades
permitted in
chassis Total ports per
chassis
CP8 40 Control blade NA 2 NA
CR16-8 240 Core blade 16 64-Gbps QSFP
ports 2 32 quad ports
(128 ports)
FC8-32E 140 Port blade 32 8-Gbps SFP+ up to 8 256
FC8-48E 160.4 Port blade 48 8-Gbps SFP+ up to 8 384
FC8-64 126.4 Port blade 64 8-Gbps SFP+ up to 8 512
FC16-32 140 Port blade 32 16-Gbps SFP+
- can use 8-Gbps
SFP+ up to 8 256
FC16-48 160.4 Port blade 48 16-Gbps SFP+
- can use 8-Gbps
SFP+ up to 8 384
FC16-64 134 Port blade 16 QSFPs (4 16-
Gbps ports per
QSFP) up to 8 512
FCOE10-24 250 Application
blade 24 10-Gbps SFP+
Fibre Channel
over Ethernet up to 1 (slot 1
only) 24
FS8-18 235 Encryption
blade 16 8-Gbps SFP+ up to 4 64
FX8-24 250 Extension
blade 12 8-Gbps SFP+,
10 1-Gbps
Ethernet, 2 10-
Gbps Ethernet up to 4 48 8-Gbps, 40 1-
Gbps Ethernet, 8
10-Gbps
Ethernet
Fan unit 90 NA NA 3 fans per
chassis NA
Power supply redundancy is key to your installation, so any demand must be met with twice the
capacity. Refer to the following table for power supply requirements for specific demand ranges.
Specifications
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