DATA CENTER Best Practices Guide: High Density Cable Management Solutions v6.4.0

DATA CENTER BEST PRACTICES GUIDE
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Overview of the FC8-64 FC port blade
The Brocade
®
FC8-64 high density 64-port Fibre Channel blade (Figure 1) for the DCX
®
Backbone family
combines industry leading port density, performance, scalability, and reliability to maximize the benefits of
SAN and server consolidation. It’s the industry’s first and only 64-port 8 Gbps Fibre Channel blade that
enables mid to large enterprise customers to deploy high density modular chassis-based solutions to
minimize physical footprint without compromising performance.
The new high density Fibre Channel port blade increases the chassis density by 25%, enabling the DCX to
scale up to 512 ports and the DCX-4S to scale up to 256 ports with 8 Gbps performance.
The Brocade DCX family provides nearly six times the performance of competitive offerings. Performance
capabilities include:
Brocade DCX:
• Up to 512 ports operating simultaneously at full 8 Gbps speed
• Up to 1024 ports in a single rack (two chassis)
• 4.096 Tbps of chassis bandwidth
Brocade DCX-4S:
• Up to 256 ports operating simultaneously at full 8 Gbps speed
• Up to 768 ports in a single rack (three chassis)
• 2.048 Tbps of chassis bandwidth
Figure 1. Brocade DCX with FC8-64 FC port blade