Lenovo X8-4 Gen 8 Fibre Channel Director

Overview

The Lenovo X8-4 Gen 8 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: X8-4
• Generation: Brocade Gen 8 Fibre Channel director
• Blade Slots: 4 open blade slots
• Maximum Ports: Up to 2304 Fibre Channel ports with UltraScale ICL ports
• Fabric Scale: Connect up to 12 Brocade Gen 7 or Gen 8 directors in a single fabric
• Power Supply: Two PSUs for 1+1 redundancy
• Availability: Designed for 99.999% uptime; hot-pluggable redundant power supplies, fans and WWN cards
• Component: Specification
• System Architecture: System Architecture
• Chassis: X8-4: Non-blocking architecture ; X8-4 Director with 4 128G 48-port blades: 31Tb/s of aggregate chassis bandwidth (192 device ports with a 128G data rate plus 8 UltraScale ICL ports with 8 x Gen 8) Each provides support for (E, F, D, M, SIM, and EX) Fibre Channel ports using Fibre Channel blades
• Control Processor: Redundant (active/standby) control processor blades.
• 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.
• Port Blades: FC128-48 port blade provides 48 ports of 64Gb/s Fibre Channel. ; Fibre Channel: 112.2Gbps line speed, full duplex; 57.8Gbps line speed, full duplex; 28.05Gbps line speed, full duplex; 14.025Gbps line speed, full duplex; autosensing of 128, 64, 32, and 16G port speeds depending on SFPs used. ; Autosensing of 16, 32, 64 and 128Gbps port speeds depending on SFPs used.
• ISL Trunking: Frame-based trunking with up to eight 128G SFP+ ports per ISL trunk; up to 1024Gbps per ISL trunk between switches using 128, 64, 32, or 16G ports; Exchange-based load balancing across ISLs with DPS included in Brocade FOS.
• UltraScale ICL Trunking: For chassis-to-chassis links on the inter-chassis link (ICL) blade to form a trunk: ; Trunks are formed from individual FC ports within different OSFP ports residing in the same trunk group indicated by the color borders under the ports on the blade faceplate. ; A minimum of within a port trunk group on the ICL blades that are installed in one device must be connected to a pair of OSFPs within a trunk group on the ICL blades in another device. This will result in 8 trunks of 2 ports each. ; Additional OSFP connections should be added in pairs, with each additional pair residing within the…
• Multi-chassis With UltraScale ICL Ports: Up to 4608 Fibre Channel ports; UltraScale ICL ports (16 ports per 8-slot chassis or 8 ports per 4-slot chassis, optical OSFP) connect up to 9 chassis in a full-mesh topology or up to 12 chassis in a core-edge topology.
• Slot Bandwidth: 6144Gbps providing line-rate performance for the FC128-48 blade.
• Maximum Frame Size: 2112-byte payload.
• Frame Buffers: 40,000 per ASIC.
• Fibre Channel Port Types: FC128-48: F_Port, E_Port, EX_Port, M_Port, SIM, and D_Port. X8-4 CR Blades: E_Port, EX_Port, and D_Port. Self-discovery is based on switch type (U_Port) with an optional port type control.
• Data Traffic Types: Fabric switches supporting unicast.
• Media Types: FC128-48 port blade: – 128G FC SFP+: SWL (LC Connector) – 64G FC SFP+: SWL, LWL, ELWL (LC Connector) ; Inter-Chassis Links (ICL) blades: – Gen 8 FC OSFP MMF, OSFP connector: SWL 100m (MPO-16 connector) – Gen 8 FC OSFP SMF, LCx2 connector: LWL 2 km (LC x 2 connector) All Brocade transceivers are PC/UPC compatible.
• 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; Name Server; NPIV; NTP v3; Port Decommission/Fencing; QoS; Registered State Change Notification (RSCN); Target-Driven Zoning; Traffic Optimizer; Virtual Fabrics (Logical Switch, Logical Fabric); SAN Fabric Intelligence; VMID+ and AppServer.
• Long Distance: Fibre Channel, in-flight compression (Brocade LZO) and encryption (AES-GCM-256 encryption on FC ISLs [E_Port]); support for DWDM MAN connectivity.
• System Components: System Components
• Classes Of Service: Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames).
• ANSI Fibre Channel Protocol: Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface standard (FC-PH).
• Port-to-port Latency: Local switching: 580 ns at 128G with dual forward error correction (FEC). ; Blade-to-blade: 1.74 μs.
• Chassis Power: All six 3000W power supplies are required to support N+N redundancy ; Chassis ships with Core Processing (CP) and Core Routing (CR) blades only ; Offers optional airflow directions: nonport-side intake (NPI) or nonport-side exhaust (NPE) ; PSU and fan assemblies with matching airflow direction must be ordered separately X8-4: ; All four 3000W power supplies are required to support N+N redundancy ; Chassis ships with Core Processing (CP) and Core Routing (CR) blades only ; Offers optional airflow directions: nonport-side intake NPI or nonport-side exhaust NPE ; PSU and fans with matching…
• Cooling: Requires 3 fan tray assemblies for a 2+1 redundancy. A failure condition is 1 failed fan from any fan tray. X8-4: ; Requires 3 fan tray assemblies for a 2+1 redundancy. A failure condition is 1 failed fan from any fan tray. ; Each assembly contains 2 fans for a total of 6 fans. The system requires 5 of 6 functioning fans for operation in the X8-4. One fan assembly can be hot-swapped and should be replaced immediately in the event of a failure.
• Management: Management Brocade Web Tools; Brocade SANnav Management Portal and SANnav Global View; command-line interface (CLI); HTTPS; RESTful API; SSH; SNMPv3 (FE MIB, FC Management MIB); trial licenses for add-on capabilities. 1/10Gbps 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); Federated Authentication; FCAP switch authentication; FIPS 140-3 compliant; HTTPS; IP filtering; OpenLDAP; port binding; principle of least privilege architecture; user-defined role-based access control (RBAC); Secure Boot; Secure Copy (SCP); Secure Syslog; SFTP; SSH v2; Switch Binding; TLS v1.3; PQC algorithms; Trusted FOS Certificates (TruFOS); 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
• Architecture: Nonblocking shared memory; passive backplane; redundant active/passive control processor; redundant active/active core switching blades; single chassis ID (CID) card with built in redundancy. Card is not field replaceable.
• Solution Availability: Designed to provide 99.999% uptime with nondisruptive capabilities, hot-pluggable components and a no-single-point-of-failure design. ; Includes redundant: power supplies, fans, CID cards, processors, core switching, ICL blades, port blades, and optics. ; Includes online diagnostics and nondisruptive firmware download and activation
• Diagnostics: Active Support Connectivity (ASC) and Brocade Support Link (BSL); built-in flow generator; ClearLink optics and cable diagnostics, including link traffic/latency/distance; Fabric Performance Impact Monitoring (FPI); flow mirroring; dual forward error correction (FEC); frame viewer; IO Insight for SCSI and NVMe monitoring; Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS); nondisruptive daemon restart; optics health monitoring; POST and embedded online/offline diagnostics, including environmental monitoring, FCping, and Pathinfo (FC traceroute); power monitoring; RAStrace logging; Rolling Reboot…

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 X8-4 Gen 8 Fibre Channel Director is supplied as a configured platform. management: Management Brocade Web Tools; Brocade SANnav Management Portal and SANnav Global View; command-line interface…. Send the required configuration for a firm quote.

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