HP DC SAN Backbone Director Switch Hardware Reference Guide (5697-2158, August 2012)

the front panel diagram. The 1-GbE ports are 0 through 9 and are in both columns above the
FC and 10GE ports. They are labeled GE on the front panel diagram.
There are three FC trunking groups, defined as follows:
◦ Trunk group 0: FC ports 0, 1
◦ Trunk group 1: FC ports 6, 7
◦ Trunk group 2: FC ports 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11
• FCOE10-24 blade: Ports are numbered from 0 through 23 in two vertical rows, starting from
the bottom left and ending at the top right.
Managing cables
The cable management comb (see Figure 1 (page 9)) is attached to the chassis under the chassis
door and allows for simple cable management. The comb can be installed without service disruption.
Route cables down in front of the blades to keep LEDs visible. Leave at least one meter of slack for
each fiber optic cable to provide room to remove and replace blades.
IMPORTANT: Do not route the cables in front of the air exhaust vent, which is located at the top
of the port side of the chassis.
NOTE: The FC8-64 high density port blade cannot use the standard LC cables because the pitch
between optics in the new mSFP optical transceiver is smaller than in the standard SFPs. Patch
cables and panels can be used to attach standard size cabling to the blade if necessary.
Figure 10 (page 28) shows the mSFP to SFP patch cable. See Best Practices Guide: High Density
Cable Management Solutions for cable management guidelines for high-density port solutions,
cable and patch panel part numbers.
Figure 10 Patch cable
2. Duplex clip1. mini-SFP connector
4. Standard LC SFP connector3. 1.6 mm cable
See Table 4 (page 15) for a listing of the qualified mSFP optical cables for the FC8-64 port blade.
If ISL Trunking is in use, group the cables by trunking group. The ports are color-coded to indicate
which ports can be used in the same ISL Trunking group: eight ports marked with solid black ovals
alternate with eight ports marked with oval outlines. For information on supported cable speeds
and distances, see Table 28 (page 107)
Installing transceivers and attaching cables
Follow these steps to install SFPs, SFP+s, mSFPs (FC8-64 port card only), or XFPs (FC10-6 port card
only) and cables to the DC SAN Director.
28 DC SAN Director installation