Installation guide

The Brocade 7800 provides the following hardware features:
• Up to 16 Fibre Channel SFP ports supporting Fibre Channel Routing Services with link speeds up
to 1, 2, 4, or 8 Gbps
• Up to six 1 GbE ports supporting the FCIP and Fibre Channel Routing Services features with
transmit link speeds up to 1-Gbps on each port:
‐ Two fixed copper RJ-45 ports are provided along with six SFP ports (copper or optical).
You can select either the two fixed copper RJ-45 ports or the first two SFP ports (both
designated as ge0 and ge1) for use (but not both). The SFP ports can be used with either
optical or copper SFPs.
‐ The SFP ports can be configured to use either optical or copper cabling.
• Rack mountable 1U chassis.
• One 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet port for management interface.
‐ This port supports AutoMDI/MDIX.
• One RJ45 terminal port.
• One USB port that provides storage for firmware updates, output of the supportSave command
and storage for configuration uploads and downloads.
• Two redundant, hot-swappable combined power supply/fan assembly FRUs.
• Five internal temperature sensors.
Brocade 7800 Features
The following table compares features supported on the base and fully upgraded Brocade 7800. It also
shows optionally licensed features.
Feature comparison - Base 7800 and with the Upgrade LicenseTABLE 1
Feature Base 7800 with Upgrade License
Number of Fibre Channel ports 4 16
Number of GbE ports 2 6
Fibre Channel routing between remote fabrics for fault isolation Yes
1
Yes
1
FCIP Tunnel Yes Yes
Number of FCIP tunnels 2 8
FCIP Trunking Yes
2
Yes
2
Adaptive Rate Limiting Yes
2
Yes
2
FC frame compression Yes Yes
Storage optimized TCP Yes Yes
Fast Write over FCIP tunnel Yes Yes
Open Systems Tape Pipelining over FCIP tunnel No Yes
1
Requires IR license
2
Requires Advanced Extension license
Brocade 7800 Features
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