Installation guide

Brocade 5100 Introduction
● Brocade 5100 overview...................................................................................................11
● Facility requirements....................................................................................................... 12
● Port side of the Brocade 5100.........................................................................................13
● Non-port side of the Brocade 5100................................................................................. 14
● Field replaceable units (FRUs)........................................................................................14
● Ports on Demand license................................................................................................ 15
● ISL trunking groups......................................................................................................... 15
Brocade 5100 overview
The Brocade 5100 is an Enterprise class 1U, 40-port Fibre Channel 1, 2, 4 or 8 Gbps Fibre Channel
switch that offers the next generation Brocade, single-chip architecture for Storage Area Networks
(SANs). The Brocade 5100 is designed to function in large-scale enterprise SANs and can also fit the
requirements of small to medium-sized work groups.
Because the Brocade 5100 has a slim 1U height and a high port count, you can use the Brocade 5100
to create very dense fabrics in a relatively small space. With its flexible Ports On Demand (POD)
capability, the Brocade 5100 provides excellent overall value as the foundation of a SAN with the ability
to grow with an organization’s SAN needs.
The Brocade 5100 is the latest mid-range offer from the Brocade family of entry-to-enterprise products.
It supports the following features:
• Up to 40 ports of high-performance 8 Gbps technology and POD scaling from 24 to 32 or 40 ports.
• Support for 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gbps auto-sensing Fibre Channel switch and router ports.
• FICON
®
, FICON Cascading and FICON Control Unit Port ready.
• Two hot-swappable, redundant integrated power supply and fan FRUs.
• Universal ports that self-configure as E, F, M, or FL ports. Ex_Ports are activated on a per port basis
with the optional Integrated Routing license.
• Fibre Channel Routing (FCR) service that provides improved scalability and fault isolation (through
the optional Integrated Routing license).
• An RJ45 Ethernet management port, that in conjunction with EZSwitchSetup, supports switch IP
address discovery and configuration, eliminating the need to attach a serial cable to configure the
switch IP address and greatly increasing the ease of use.
• USB port that provides storage for firmware updates, output of the supportSave command and
storage for configuration uploads and downloads
• Single motherboard design with 667 MHz PowerPC 440EPx Reduced Instruction Set Computer
(RISC) CPU and integrated peripherals which provide high performance.
• Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking (licensable), which allows up to eight ports (at 1, 2, 4, or 8 Gbps
speeds) between a pair of switches combined to form a single, logical ISL with a speed of up to 128
Gbps full duplex for optimal bandwidth utilization and load balancing.
• Dynamic Path Selection (DPS), which optimizes fabric-wide performance and load balancing by
automatically routing data to the most efficient available path in the fabric.
• Rack-mount design using existing rail kits (fixed, sliding, and mid-mount/Telco rail kits) on a 19" EIA
rack.
Brocade 5100 Hardware Installation Guide
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