Datasheet

Media types 16 Gbps: Brocade FC16-32 and -48 require
Brocade hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector;
16 Gbps SWL, LWL, ELWL
10 Gbps: Brocade FC16-32 and -48 require Brocade
hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 10 Gbps SWL, LWL
8 Gbps: Brocade FC16-32 and -48; Brocade FC8-32E
and -48E; Brocade FX8-24; and Brocade FS8-18 blades
require Brocade hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector;
8 Gbps SWL, LWL, ELWL
8 Gbps: Brocade FC8-64 blades require Brocade hot-
pluggable mSFP, mSFP LC connector; 8 Gbps SWL only
UltraScale ICL QSFP: Brocade CR16-8 and CR16-4
require Brocade hot-pluggable QSFP, MTP connector;
4×16 Gbps SWL (50 m OM3, 100 m OM4)
Fibre Channel distance subject to ber-optic cable
and port speed
USB 1 USB port per control processor for rmware download,
support save, and conguration upload/download
Fabric services Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring (APM)
(including Top Talkers for E_Ports, F_Ports, and Fabric
mode); Brocade Adaptive Networking (Ingress Rate
Limiting, Trafc Isolation, QoS); Bottleneck Detection;
Brocade Advanced Zoning (default zoning, port/WWN
zoning, broadcast zoning); Dynamic Fabric
Provisioning (DFP); Dynamic Path Selection (DPS);
Brocade Extended Fabrics; Enhanced BB credit
recovery; Brocade Fabric Watch; FDMI; Flow Vision;
Frame Redirection; Frame-based Trunking; FSPF;
Integrated Routing; IPoFC; Brocade ISL Trunking;
Management Server; Monitoring and Alerting Policy
Suite (MAPS); NPIV; NTP v3; Port Fencing; Registered
State Change Notication (RSCN); Reliable Commit
Service (RCS); Brocade Server Application
Optimization (SAO); Simple Name Server (SNS); Virtual
Fabrics (Logical Switch, Logical Fabric)
Extension Supports DWDM, CWDM, and FC-SONET devices;
Fibre Channel, in-ight compression (Brocade LZO)
and encryption (AES-GCM-256) BB credit recovery;
FCIP, Adaptive Rate Limiting (ARL), data compression,
Fast Write, read/write Tape Pipelining, QoS
FICON FICON cascading (Brocade Fabric OS: Brocade DCX
8510-8, DCX 8510-4); support for lossless DLS; FICON
CUP; Advanced Accelerator for FICON (FICON Global
Mirror and XRC emulation and read/write Tape Pipelining).
The Brocade FC8-64 blade does not support FICON.
High Availability
Architecture Passive backplane; redundant active/passive control
processor; redundant active/active core switching
blades; redundant WWN cards
Chassis power Two 2000 W AC power supply modules (100 to 240 V
auto-sensing), 2N redundancy; Brocade DCX 8510-8
supports two additional power modules
Cooling Brocade DCX 8510-8: Three blower assembly modules
(two required for operation)
Brocade DCX 8510-4: Two blower assembly modules
(one required for operation)
Solution availability Designed to provide 99.999 percent uptime capabilities;
hot-pluggable redundant power supplies, fans, WWN
cards, processors, core switching, port blades, and
optics; online diagnostics; non-disruptive rmware
download and activation
Management
Management HTTP, SNMP v1/v3 (FE MIB, FC Management MIB),
SSH; Auditing, Syslog; Brocade Advanced Web Tools,
Brocade Network Advisor SAN Enterprise or Brocade
Network Advisor SAN Professional Plus; Command
Line Interface (CLI); SMI-S compliant; Administrative
Domains; trial licenses for add-on capabilities
Security AES-GCM-256 encryption on ISLs; DH-CHAP (between
switches and end devices), FCAP switch authentication;
FIPS 140-2 L2-compliant, HTTPS, IPsec, IP ltering, LDAP
with IPv6, OpenLDAP, Port Binding, RADIUS, User-dened
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Secure Copy (SCP),
Secure RPC, SFTP, SSH v2, SSL, Switch Binding,
TACACS+, Trusted Switch
Management
access
10/100/1000 Ethernet (RJ-45) per control processor,
in-band over Fibre Channel; serial port (RJ-45) and
one USB per control processor module; call-home
integration enabled through Brocade Network Advisor
Diagnostics Built-in ow generator, ClearLink optics and cable
diagnostics, including electrical/optical loopback, link
trafc/latency/distance; POST and embedded online/
ofine diagnostics, including environmental
monitoring, FCping and Pathinfo (FC traceroute), ow
mirroring, frame viewer, non-disruptive daemon
restart, port mirroring, optics health monitoring, power
monitoring (16 Gbps blades-only), RAStrace logging,
and Rolling Reboot Detection (RRD)
BROCADE DCX 8510 BACKBONE SPECIFICATIONS (CONTINUED)