Deployment Guide

Example of port index mapping on an FC16-32 blade of a Brocade DCX 8510-8 Backbone
This example shows the truncated output of the switchShow command for an FC16-32 port blade in
slot 1 of a Brocade DCX 8510-8 Backbone. The Address column shows the PID.
switch:FID128:admin> switchshow -slot 1
switchName: DCX8510_8
(output truncated)
LS Attributes: [FID: 128, Base Switch: No, Default Switch: Yes, Address Mode 0]
Index Slot Port Address Media Speed State Proto
=======================================================================
0 1 0 500000 -- N16 No_Module FC
1 1 1 500100 -- N16 No_Module FC
2 1 2 500200 -- N16 No_Module FC
(output truncated)
Example of port index mapping on an FC8-64 blade on a Brocade DCX Backbone.
This example shows the truncated switchShow output for an FC8-64 port blade on the Brocade DCX
Backbone. The assignment of port index numbers to PIDs will vary depending on blade type, platform
type, and slot number.
DCX:admin> switchshow
Index Slot Port Address Media Speed State
=============================================================
0 1 0 0a0040 -- N8 No_Module
1 1 1 0a0140 -- N8 No_Module
2 1 2 0a0240 -- N8 No_Module
(output truncated)
768 1 48 0a00c0 -- N8 No_Module
769 1 49 0a01c0 -- N8 No_Module
770 1 50 0a02c0 -- N8 No_Module
(output truncated)
784 1 62 0a0ec0 -- N8 No_Module
783 1 63 0a0fc0 -- N8 No_Module
16 2 0 0a1040 -- N8 No_Module
17 2 1 0a1140 -- N8 No_Module
(output truncated)
Example of port indexing on an FC8-64 blade on a Brocade DCX-4S Backbone.
The Brocade DCX-4S does not need a mapping of ports on port blades because it is a one-to-one
mapping. The order is sequential starting at slot 1 port 0 all the way through slot 8 port 255 for the
FC8-64 blade. For core blades, the port index mapping for the blade in slot 3 begins with port index
256, and port index mapping for the core blade in slot 6 begins with port index 736. There are no
shared areas on the Brocade DCX-4S.
The following example switchShow output is from a Brocade DCX-4S. It shows the index and PID
addressing. The output has been truncated.
DCX-4S:admin> switchshow
Index Slot Port Address Media Speed State
==========================================================
0 1 0 0a0000 -- N8 No_Module
1 1 1 0a0100 -- N8 No_Module
2 1 2 0a0200 -- N8 No_Module
(output truncated)
48 1 48 0a3000 -- N8 No_Module
49 1 49 0a3100 -- N8 No_Module
50 1 50 0a3200 -- N8 No_Module
(output truncated)
62 1 62 0a3e00 -- N8 No_Module
63 1 63 0a3f00 -- N8 No_Module
64 2 0 0a4000 -- N8 No_Module
(output truncated)
Example of port indexing on an FX8-24 blade on a DCX 8510-8 Backbone
Port Indexing
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