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Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide 95
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Blade terminology and compatibility
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CP blades
The control processor (CP) blade provides redundancy and acts as the main controller on the
Brocade Backbone. The Brocade DCX and DCX 8510 Backbone families support the CP8 blades.
The CP blades in the Brocade DCX and DCX 8510 Backbone families are hot-swappable. The CP8
blades are fully interchangeable among Brocade DCX, DCX-4S, DCX 8510-4, and DCX 8510-8
Backbones.
Brocade recommends that each CP (primary and secondary partition) should maintain the same
firmware version.
For more information on maintaining firmware in your Backbone, refer to Chapter 9, “Installing and
Maintaining Firmware”.
Core blades
Core blades provide intra-chassis switching and ICL connectivity, between DCX/DCX-4S platforms
and between DCX 8510 platforms.
• Brocade DCX supports two CORE8 core blades.
• Brocade DCX-4S supports two CR4S-8 core blades.
• Brocade DCX 8510-8 supports two CR16-8 core blades.
• Brocade DCX 8510-4 supports two CR16-4 core blades.
The core blades for each platform are not interchangeable or hot-swappable with the core blades
for any other platform. If you try to interchange the blades they become faulty.
FCOE10-24 74 Yes ‘No 24
10-GbE
DCB ports
An application blade that provides Converged Enhanced Ethernet to bridge
a Fibre Channel and Ethernet SAN.
Ports are numbered from 0 through 11 from bottom to top on the left set of
ports and 12 through 23 from bottom to top on the right set of ports.
FX8-24 75 Yes Yes 12 FC
10 1-GbE
2 10-GbE
Extension blade with 8-Gbps Fibre Channel, FCIP, and 10-GbE technology.
Port numbering on this blade is as follows.
On the left side of the blade going from bottom to top:
• Six FC ports numbered from 0 through 5
• Two 10-GbE ports numbered xge0 and xge1
• Four 1-GbE ports numbered from ge0 through ge3
On the right side of the blade going from bottom to top:
• Six FC ports numbered from 6 through 11
• Six 1-GbE ports numbered from ge4 through ge9
1. The Brocade DCX and DCX-4S support loop devices on this blade in a Virtual Fabrics-enabled environment.
TABLE 6 Port blade terminology, numbering, and platform support (Continued)
Supported on:
Blade Blade ID
(slotshow)
DCX family DCX 8510
family
Ports Definition