Lenovo X7-4 Gen 7 Fibre Channel Director
Lenovo X7-4 Gen 7 Fibre Channel Director
Lenovo X7-4 Gen 7 Fibre Channel Director

Lenovo X7-4 Gen 7 Fibre Channel Director

The Lenovo X7-4 Gen 7 Fibre Channel Director is a storage network switch from Lenovo, supporting up to 4608 Fibre Channel ports; UltraScale ICL ports.

SKU: X7-4 Category: Brand:
Product SKU

X7-4

Generation

Brocade Gen 7 Fibre Channel director

Blade Slots

4 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

X7-4: Non-blocking architecture
• X7-4 Director with 48x 64Gb/s port blades: 15.7Tb/s of aggregate chassis bandwidth (192 device ports with a 64Gb/s data rate plus 16 4xGen7 ICLs)
• X7-4 Director with 64x 64Gport blades: 19.8Tb/s of aggregate chassis bandwidth (192 device ports with a 64G data rate plus 16 4xGen7 ICLs) Each provides support for (E, F, D, M, SIM, and EX) Fibre Channel ports using 48-port 64Gb/s Fibre Channel blades.

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-X7-48 port blade provides 48 ports of 32Gb/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.
• Autosensing of 8, 16, 32, and 64G port speeds depending on SFP-DD/SFP+ used. Support for 8G requires a 32G SFP+ LWL or ELWL transceiver. FC32-X7-48 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 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. …

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

• X7-4: 19.8Tb/s per chassis with 256 device ports + 16 UltraScale ICL connections supporting 64 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.
• FC64-64, FC64-48, FC32-X7-48, FC32-48, FC32-64 port blades: F_Port, E_Port, EX_Port, M_Port, SIM, 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
• FC32-X7-48 and FC 32-48 port blade:
– 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

• X7-4: Up to 256 ports, universal (F_Port, E_Port, EX_Port, M_Port, D_Port, SIM Port, *FICON). *48 port blade required

Chassis Power

• X7-4: 1+1 redundancy.

Cooling

• Requires three fan tray assemblies. A failure condition is one failed fan from any fan tray.
X7-4:
• Requires two fan tray assemblies. A failure condition is one failed fan from any fan tray.
• Each assembly contains two fans for a total of four fans. The system requires three of four functioning fans for operation in the X7-4. One fan assembly can be hot-swapped and should be replaced immediately in the event of a failure.

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 X7-4 Gen 7 Fibre Channel Director is a Lenovo network platform, aimed at network platform workloads. Its full parameter set is listed below.

At a glance

  • Product SKU: X7-4
  • Generation: Brocade Gen 7 Fibre Channel director
  • Blade Slots: 4 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: X7-4: Non-blocking architecture ; X7-4 Director with 48x 64Gb/s port blades: 15.7Tb/s of aggregate chassis bandwidth (192 device ports with a 64Gb/s data rate plus 16 4xGen7 ICLs) ; X7-4 Director with 64x 64Gport blades: 19.8Tb/s of aggregate chassis bandwidth (192 device ports with a 64G data rate plus 16 4xGen7 ICLs) Each provides support for (E, F, D, M, SIM, and EX) Fibre Channel ports using 48-port 64Gb/s Fibre Channel blades.
  • 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-X7-48 port blade provides 48 ports of 32Gb/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. ; Autosensing of 8, 16, 32, and 64G port speeds depending on SFP-DD/SFP+ used. Support for 8G…
  • 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…
  • 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: X7-4: 19.8Tb/s per chassis with 256 device ports + 16 UltraScale ICL connections supporting 64 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. ; FC64-64, FC64-48, FC32-X7-48, FC32-48, FC32-64 port blades: F_Port, E_Port, EX_Port, M_Port, SIM, 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 ; FC32-X7-48 and FC 32-48 port blade: – 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…
  • 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: X7-4: Up to 256 ports, universal (F_Port, E_Port, EX_Port, M_Port, D_Port, SIM Port, *FICON). *48 port blade required
  • Chassis Power: X7-4: 1+1 redundancy.
  • Cooling: Requires three fan tray assemblies. A failure condition is one failed fan from any fan tray. X7-4: ; Requires two fan tray assemblies. A failure condition is one failed fan from any fan tray. ; Each assembly contains two fans for a total of four fans. The system requires three of four functioning fans for operation in the X7-4. One fan assembly can be hot-swapped and should be replaced immediately in the event of a failure.
  • 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.)

When to choose this network platform

Choose it for network platform workloads. with Two PSUs for 1+1 redundancy.

Reading the specifications

See the grouped parameters above for capacity, connectivity, power and physical data; confirm the specific configuration against your workload before ordering.

Platform & compatibility

Supplied as a complete platform. Confirm CPU/controller, memory, drives and power against your environment before ordering.

Deployment notes

The Lenovo X7-4 Gen 7 Fibre Channel Director is supplied as a configured platform. management: Management Brocade Advanced Web Tools; Brocade SANnav Management Portal and SANnav Global View; Command Line…. Send the required configuration for a firm quote.

FAQ

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