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

System architecture
Table 22 DC SAN Director system architecture
Up to 256 ports, universal (E_Port, F_Port, FL_Port, Ex_Port,
and M_Port)
FC Ports
Redundant (active/standby) control processor modulesControl processor
Full fabric architecture: 239 switches maximumScalability
1.063 Gb/s line speed, full duplex
2.125 Gb/s line speed, full duplex
Performance
4.25 Gb/s line speed, full duplex
8.50 Gb/s line speed, full duplex
10.51875 Gb/s line speed, full duplex (with FC10-6
blade)
Autosensing of 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gb/s port speeds optionally
programmable to fixed port speed, speed matching
between 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gb/s port speeds
Can use up to 8 ports in a trunk group to form a 64 Gb/s
trunk
ISL Trunking
6144 Gb/s, end-to-end, when using eight FC4-48 port
blades
Aggregate bandwidth
For the FC8-16, FC8-32, FC8-48, and FC8-64 blades:
<2.1 µsec any port to any port at 8 Gb/s, cut-through
routing
Switch latency
For the FR4-18i blade:
<3.6 µsec any port to any port at 4 Gb/s, cut-through
routing
For the FX8-24 blade:
<700 ns any port to any port at 8 Gb/s, cut-through routing
For the FCOE10-24 blade:
• CEE to CEE (same ASIC)—5 µsec
• CEE to CEE (different ASIC)—5 µsec
• FCoE to FC—5 µsec
2,112-byte payloadMaximum frame size
2,048 per ASIC, dynamically allocatedFrame buffers
Class 2, Class 3, Class F (interswitch frames)Classes of service
The FC8-16 and FC8-32 supports these port types:
F_Port, E_Port, FL_Port, M_Port, and EX_Port
Port types
FC8-48 supports these port types:
F_Port, E_Port, FL_Port, M_Port, and EX_Port
FC8-64 supports these port types:
F_Port, E_Port, FL_Port, M_Port, and EX_Port
FC10-6 supports this port type:
E_Port
The FR4-18i supports these port types:
FL_Port, F_Port, E_Ports, M_Port, VE_Port, EX_Port, and
VEX_Port
The FS8-18 supports these port types:
F_Port, E_Port, FL_Port, M_Port, and EX_Port
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