Lenovo ThinkSystem X7-4 FC SAN Director
The Lenovo X7 FC SAN Directors are high-performance, modular, chassis-based Fibre Channel networking devices that provides connectivity between servers, switches and storage systems to form the backbone of an enterprise FC storage area network. The X7 Directors provide up to 384 64Gb ports or up …
Description
Product overview
The Lenovo X7 FC SAN Directors are high-performance, modular, chassis-based Fibre Channel networking devices that provides connectivity between servers, switches and storage systems to form the backbone of an enterprise FC storage area network. The X7 Directors provide up to 384 64Gb ports or up to 512 32Gb ports, enabling organizations to scale more devices, applications, and workloads. This product guide provides essential pre-sales information to understand the X7 Directors, their key features and specifications, components and options, and configuration guidelines. This guide is intended for technical specialists, sales specialists, sales engineers, IT architects, and other IT professionals who want to learn more about the X7 Directors and consider their use in IT solutions.
Key capabilities
- 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; 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) Fibr…
- 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.
Technical specifications
| 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; 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) Fibr… |
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| 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 spe… |
| 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.; 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. |
Configuration note
Processor, memory, storage, networking, accelerator, power, cooling and regional order codes may vary by configuration. GPULoom confirms the exact bill of materials and compatibility for each inquiry.
