Lenovo X7-8 Gen 7 Fibre Channel Director

Lenovo X7-8 Gen 7 Fibre Channel Director

The Lenovo X7-8 Gen 7 Fibre Channel Director is a storage network switch from Lenovo, supporting up to 4608 Fibre Channel ports; UltraScale ICL ports.

SKU: X7-8 Category: Networking Brand: Lenovo

Technical Specifications
Overview

Product SKU	X7-8
Generation	Brocade Gen 7 Fibre Channel director
Blade Slots	8 open blade slots
Maximum Ports	Up to 2304 Fibre Channel ports with UltraScale ICL ports
Power Supply	Two PSUs for 1+1 redundancy
Availability	Designed for 99.999% uptime; hot-pluggable redundant power supplies, fans and WWN cards
Dimensions (H x W x D)	34.45cm x 43.74cm x 61.04cm
Software	Fabric Vision, Trunking, Extended Fabrics, Integrated Routing and CUP
Component	Specification
System Architecture	System Architecture
Chassis	X7-8: Non-blocking architecture • X7-8 Director with 48x 64Gb/s port blades: 30.9Tb/s of aggregate chassis bandwidth (384 device ports with a 64Gb/s data rate plus 32 4xGen7 ICLs) • X7-8 Director with 64x 64G port blades: 39.6Tb/s of aggregate chassis bandwidth (512 device ports with a 64G data rate plus 32 4xGen7 ICLs) X7-4: Non-blocking architecture
Control Processor	Redundant (active/standby) control processor modules.
Scalability	Full-fabric architecture of 239 switches.
Certified Maximum	6000 active devices per switch; 56 switches, 19 hops in Brocade Fabric OS® (FOS) fabrics; larger fabrics certified as required.
Fibre Channel Blades	• FC64-48 port blade provides 48 ports of 64Gb/s Fibre Channel. • FC64-64 port blade provides 64 ports of 64Gb/s Fibre Channel. • FC32-48 port blade provides 48 ports of 32Gb/s Fibre Channel. • FC32-64 port blade provides 64 ports of 32Gb/s Fibre Channel.
Extension Blades	SX6 Extension Blade provides Fibre Channel extension (16x 32Gb/s Fibre Channel ports) and IP extension over IP networks (16×1GbE/10GbE and 2×40GbE ports).
Performance	FC64-48 Port Blade: • Fibre Channel: 8.5Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 10.53Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 14.025Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 28.05Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 57.8Gb/s line speed, full duplex. • Autosensing of 8, 16, 32, and 64Gb/s port speeds depending on SFPs used. • 10Gb/s port speeds with dedicated SFPs. FC64-64 Port Blade: • Fibre Channel: 8.5Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 14.025Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 28.05Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 57.8Gb/s line speed, full duplex. • Fibre Channel: 4.25Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 8.5Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 10.53Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 14.025Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 28.05Gb/s line speed, full duplex. • Autosensing of 4, 8, 16, and 32Gb/s port speeds depending on SFPs used. • 10Gb/s port speeds with dedicated SFPs. FC32-48 Port Blade: • Fibre Channel: 4.25Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 8.5Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 10.53Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 14.025Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 28.05Gb/s line speed, full duplex. • Autosensing of 4, 8, 16, and 32G port speeds depending on SFPs used. • 10G port speeds with dedicated SFPs. FC32-64 Port Blade: • Fibre Channel: 4.25Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 8.5Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 14.025Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 28.05Gb/s line speed, full duplex. • Autosensing of 4, 8, 16, and 32Gb/s port speeds depending on QSFPs used. • FCoE: 10GbE, 25GbE, or 40GbE FCoE speeds. …
ISL Trunking	Frame-based trunking with up to eight 64Gb/s ports per ISL trunk; up to 512Gb/s per ISL trunk between switches using 8G, 16G, 32G, or 64G ports; exchange-based load balancing across ISLs with DPS included in Brocade FOS.
UltraScale ICL Trunking	Chassis-to-chassis linkage through connectors on the Core Routing (CR) blade. Can configure the following maximum number of QSFPs per trunk depending on blade type, connecting: • Up to four QSFP ports in a trunk group between two CR64-4 blades. For trunks that contain four or fewer QSFP ports, ports in a trunk must be in the same port group on each blade. • Up to four QSFP ports in a trunk group between a CR64-4 blade and a CR64-8 blade. For trunks that contain four or fewer QSFP ports, ports in a trunk must be in the same port group on each blade. A minimum of two QSFP connections are required for a trunk, and up to four QSFP trunks between pairs of CR64-8 or CR64-4.
Multi-chassis With UltraScale ICL Ports	Up to 4608 Fibre Channel ports; UltraScale ICL ports (32 for 8-slot or 16 per 4-slot chassis, optical QSFP) connect up to 9 chassis in a full-mesh topology or up to 12 chassis in a core-edge topology.
Chassis Bandwidth	• X7-8: 39.6Tb/s per chassis with 512 device ports + 32 UltraScale ICL connections supporting 128 ports.
Slot Bandwidth	3072Gb/s (line rate) providing line-rate performance for the FC64-48 blade or 4096Gb/s providing line-rate performance for the FC64-64 blade.
Maximum Frame Size	2112-byte payload.
Frame Buffers	24,000 per switching ASIC.
Classes Of Service	Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames). Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames).
Fibre Channel Port Types	• CR64-8 and CR64-4 CR blades: E_Port, EX_Port, and D_Port. • SX6 extension blade: F_Port, FL_Port, E_Port, SIM, and EX_Port on FC and VE_Port on GbE. Self-discovery is based on switch type (U_Port) with an optional port type control.
Data Traffic Types	Fabric switches supporting unicast.
Media Types	• FC64-48 port blade: – 64G FC SFP+ LC connector: SWL, LWL, ELWL – 32G FC SFP+ LC connector: SWL, LWL, ELWL – 10G FC SFP+ LC connector: SWL, LWL • FC64-64 port blade: – 64G FC SFP-DD LC connector: SWL – 64G FC SFP+ LC connector: SWL, LWL – 32G FC SFP+ LC connector: LWL, ELWL – 32G FC SFP+ LC connector: SWL, LWL, ELWL – 16G FC SFP+ LC connector: SWL, LWL, ELWL – 10G FC SFP+ LC connector: SWL, LWL • FC32-64 port blade: – 4x32G FC QSFP+ MPO connector: SWL – 4x32G FC QSFP+ SMF LC connector: 2 km (fixed at 4x32G only) – 4x16G FC QSFP+ MPO connector: SWL – FCoE QSFP+ MPO connector: 100GBASE-SR4, 4x25GbE – FCoE QSFP+ MPO connector: 40GBASE-SR4, 4x10GbE – FCoE QSFP+ LC connector: 40GbE BiDi • SX6 Extension Blade: – 32G FC SFP+ LC connector: SWL, LWL, ELWL – 16G FC SFP+ LC connector: SWL, LWL, ELWL – 10G FC SFP+ LC connector: SWL, LWL – Ethernet QSFP+ MPO connector: 40GBASE-SR4, 40GBASE-LR4, 40GBASE-ER4 – Ethernet QSFP+ LC connector: 40GbE BiDi – 10GbE SFP+ LC connector: SR, LR – 1GbE SFP+ LC connector: SX, LX – 1GbE SFP+ copper connector • Core Routing (CR) blades, CR64-4 and CR64-8: – Gen 7 FC QSFP+ MPO connector: SWL, 2 km* – 4x32G FC QSFP+ SMF LC connector: SWL, 2 km * Use of the Gen 7 2-km ICL QSFP is subject to the following environmental ratings for maximum intake air temperature: 0–40°C at sea level; 0–35°C up to 1500m (4921 ft) elevation; and 0–30°C from 1500m to 3000m (9843 ft) elevation.
USB	One USB port per control processor for firmware download, SupportSave, and configuration upload or download.
Fabric Services	BB Credit Recovery; Brocade Advanced Zoning (Default Zoning, Port/WWN Zoning, Peer Zoning); Congestion Signaling; Dynamic Path Selection (DPS); Extended Fabrics; Fabric Performance Impact Notification (FPIN); Fabric Vision; FDMI; FICON CUP; Flow Vision; F_Port Trunking; FSPF; Integrated Routing; ISL Trunking; Management Server; NPIV; NTP v3; Port Decommission/Fencing; QoS; Registered State Change Notification (RSCN); Name Server; Target-Driven Zoning; Traffic Optimizer; Virtual Fabrics (Logical Switch, Logical Fabric); VMID+ and AppServer.
Fibre Channel Ports	• X7-8: Up to 512 ports, universal (E_Port, F_Port, EX_Port, M_Port, D_Port, SIM Port, *FICON).
Chassis Power	• X7-8: 2+2 redundancy.
Cooling	X7-8: • Requires three fan tray assemblies. A failure condition is one failed fan from any fan tray. • Each assembly contains two fans for a total of six fans. The system requires five of six functioning fans for operation in the X7-8. One fan tray assembly can be hot-swapped and should be replaced immediately in the event of a failure. X7-4: • Requires two fan tray assemblies. A failure condition is one failed fan from any fan tray.
Management	Management Brocade Advanced Web Tools; Brocade SANnav Management Portal and SANnav Global View; Command Line Interface (CLI); HTTP/HTTPS; RESTful API; SSH; SNMP v1/v3 (FE MIB, FC Management MIB); trial licenses for add-on capabilities. 10/100/1000Mb/s Ethernet (RJ-45) per control processor; serial console port (RJ-45) and one USB per control processor module; DHCP/DHCPv6; call-home integration enabled through Brocade SANnav Management Portal.
Security	AES-GCM-256 encryption on FC ISLs (E_Port); Device Connection Control (DCC); DH-CHAP (between switches and end devices); Fabric Configuration Server (FCS); FCAP switch authentication; FIPS 140-2 compliant; HTTPS; IP filtering; LDAP with IPv6; OpenLDAP; RADIUS; user-defined Role-Based Access Control (RBAC); Secure Boot; Secure Copy (SCP); SFTP; SSH v2; Switch Binding; TACACS+; TLS v1.2/v1.3; USGv6 compliant.
Warranty & Support	Warranty & Support
Hardware Warranty & SW Entitlement	Three-year customer-replaceable unit limited warranty with 9×5 next business day parts delivered. Also, entitlement to access latest FOS software
Extension	Supports DWDM, CWDM, and FC-SONET Devices; Fibre Channel; In-flight Compression (Brocade LZO) and Encryption (AES-GCM-256); BB Credit Recovery; FCIP; IP Extension; Adaptive Rate Limiting (ARL); Data Compression; Fast Write; Read/Write Tape Pipelining; QoS.
FICON	FICON cascading; support for lossless DLS; FICON CUP; Advanced Accelerator for FICON (IBM z/OS Global Mirror and read/write Tape Pipelining). (FICON connectivity is not supported on the FC32-64 or FC64-64 blades.)

Overview

The Lenovo X7-8 Gen 7 Fibre Channel Director is a storage network switch from Lenovo supporting up to 4608 Fibre Channel ports; UltraScale ICL ports (32 for 8-slot or 16 per 4-slot chassis, optical QSFP) connect up to 9 chassis in a full-mesh topology or up to 12 chassis in a core-edge topology.

It provides CR64-8 and CR64-4 CR blades: E_Port, EX_Port, and D_Port. delivering X7-8: 39.6Tb/s per chassis with 512 device ports + 32 UltraScale ICL connections supporting 128 ports.

Key Features

Ports and port types: Up to 4608 Fibre Channel ports; UltraScale ICL ports (32 for 8-slot or 16 per 4-slot chassis, optical QSFP) connect up to 9 chassis in a full-mesh topology or up to 12 chassis in a core-edge topology. • CR64-8 and CR64-4 CR blades: E_Port, EX_Port, and D_Port. …
Blade slots: 3072Gb/s (line rate) providing line-rate performance for the FC64-48 blade or 4096Gb/s providing line-rate performance for the FC64-64 blade.
Bandwidth: X7-8: 39.6Tb/s per chassis with 512 device ports + 32 UltraScale ICL connections supporting 128 ports.
Management and software: Management / Brocade Advanced Web Tools; Brocade SANnav Management Portal and SANnav Global View; Command Line Interface (CLI); HTTP/HTTPS; RESTful API; SSH; SNMP v1/v3 (FE MIB, FC Management MIB); trial licenses for add-on capabilities. …
Power and cooling: X7-8: / Requires three fan tray assemblies. A failure condition is one failed fan from any fan tray. …

Applications

Fibre Channel SAN fabric expansion
NVMe over Fibre Channel and all-flash storage networking
Data center consolidation and fabric modernization
Mission-critical storage networking with high availability

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