User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Brocade 300 FC SAN Switch for Lenovo Product Guide (withdrawn product)
- Did you know?
- Key features
- Components and connectors
- System specifications
- Models
- Transceivers and cables
- Software
- Fibre Channel standards
- Power supplies and cables
- Physical specifications
- Operating environment
- Warranty
- Regulatory compliance
- Interoperability
- Rack cabinets
- Power distribution units
- Uninterruptible power supply units
- Lenovo Financial Services
- Related publications and links
- Related product families
- Notices
- Trademarks
The following figure shows the non-port side of the Brocade 300.
Figure 3. Brocade 300 non-port-side view
System specifications
The following table lists the Brocade 300 system specifications.
Table 1. System specifications
Component Specification
Form factor Standalone or 1U rack mount
Ports Up to 24 SFP/SFP+ ports. 8 ports licensed by default; up to two optional 8-port license packs.
Media types 8 Gb FC SFP+ transceivers: short-wave (SW), long-wave (LW), extended long-wave (ELW).
Port speeds 2/4/8 Gbps auto-sensing, full-duplex (8 Gb FC SFP+ transceivers)
FC port types Full Fabric mode: FL_Port, F_Port, M_Port (Mirror Port). E_Port requires an optional license.
Brocade Access Gateway mode: F_Port and NPIV-enabled N_Port.
Data traffic types Unicast (Class 2 and Class 3), multicast (Class 3 only), broadcast (Class 3 only).
Classes of service Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames).
Standard software Full Fabric mode (standalone: single-switch fabric), Access Gateway (requires 24 ports be
licensed), Advanced Zoning, Adaptive Networking, Advanced Diagnostic Tools.
Optional software Full Fabric E_Port (multi-switch fabric), ISL Trunking, Fabric Vision, Extended Fabric.
Performance Non-blocking architecture with wire-speed forwarding of traffic:
2.125 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex
4.25 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex
8.5 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex
Up to 192 Gbps aggregated throughput
Up to 0.7 microseconds local switching latency
Scalability
Maximum number of switches in the fabric: 239
Maximum frame size: 2,112-byte payload
Maximum number of frame buffers per switch: 700
Maximum number of ports per ISL trunk: 8 (Requires an optional license)
Cooling Three 2+1 redundant non-hot-swap fans. Non-port to port side airflow.
Power supply One fixed 75 W AC (100 - 240 V) power supply (IEC 320-C14 connector).
Hot-swap parts SFP/SFP+ transceivers.
Management
ports
One 10/100 Mb Ethernet port (UTP, RJ-45); one RS-232 port (RJ-45); one USB port (for
additional firmware/log/configuration files storage).
Management
interfaces
EZSwitch Setup; Web-based GUI (Brocade Web Tools); CLI; SMI-S; SNMP. Optional Brocade
Network Advisor (available from Brocade).
Security features Secure Socket Layer (SSL); Secure Shell (SSH); Secure Copy (SCP); Secure FTP (SFTP); user
level security, Role-based Access Control (RBAC); LDAP, RADIUS, and TACACS+
authentication; access control lists (ACLs); IP security (IPsec)
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