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

Hardware components
The DC SAN Director features a modular and scalable mechanical construction that allows a wide
range of flexibility in installation, fabric design, and maintenance. The chassis can be mounted
with the cables facing the front of the equipment rack or to the rear, and consists of the following:
• Up to eight hot-swappable Director blade assemblies can be configured in a single chassis,
delivering up to 512 FC ports.
• Two slots for CP blades (CP8):
A single active CP8 blade can control all 512 ports in the chassis.◦
◦ The standby CP8 blade assumes control of the DC SAN Director if the active CP fails.
• Two slots for core switch blades (CR8):
CR8 blade interconnects all Director blades.◦
◦ Two ICL connectors per blade to connect to another DC SAN Director chassis.
◦ Both CR8 blades are active.
• Modular hot-swappable Director blades:
16-port, 8-Gb/s blades (FC8-16)◦
◦ 32-port, 8-Gb/s blades (FC8-32)
◦ 48-port, 8-Gb/s blades (FC8-48)
◦ 64-port, 8-Gb/s blades (FC8-64)
◦ 6-port, 10-Gb/s blades (FC10-6)
• Modular hot-swappable application blades:
◦ FR4-18i, 18-port (16 FC and 2 GbE), up to four blades per chassis, supporting FCR
services and FCIP.
• Modular hot-swappable FS8-18 encryption blade: 16-port, up to 4 blades per chassis,
supporting data cryptographic (encryption/decryption) and data-compression capabilities.
• FX8-24 application blade: 12 8Gb/s-FC ports, 10 1-GbE ports, and 2 10-GbE ports up to
two blades per chassis with Fabric OS 6.4.x and later, supporting FCR Services and FCIP.
• FCOE10-24 application blade: 24 CEE port blade, up to two blades per chassis.
NOTE: FR4-18i, FC10-6, FC8-48, FC8-64, FS8-18, FX8-24, and FCOE10-24 blades require
220 VAC. Install the FCOE10-24 blade in the same chassis only with FC8-xx and/or FC10-6
blades. It is not supported in the chassis with any other blades.
• Modular hot-swappable FRUs are as follows:
Three blower assemblies◦
◦ Up to four power supplies
At 240 VAC, two power supplies are required to provide redundancy, although the DC
SAN Director can be fully powered with a single power supply at 240 VAC.
At 120 VAC, four power supplies are required when using the FR4-18i blade.
◦ Two redundant WWN cards on the non-port side, to maintain chassis-specific information
such as WWNs, IP addresses, and summary status information for each Director blade
and power supply through LEDs
8 DC SAN Director overview