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Brocade X7 Directors

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Brocade X7 Directors

  • Scale more devices, applications, and workloads with 64G links
  • Maximize NVMe and high-transaction workloads with 50% lower network latency
  • Transform telemetry data into actionable insights to optimize performance and ensure reliability
  • Increase visibility and simplify operations with a modern SAN management tool to resolve issues without intervention
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Autonomous SAN Innovation

With autonomous SAN technology, the director harnesses the power of analytics and the simplicity of automation to optimize performance, ensure reliability, and simplify management. Leveraging these capabilities enables organizations to realize a self-learning, self-optimizing, and self-healing SAN.

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Maximum Performance

The Brocade X7 Director features industry-leading Gen 7 Fibre Channel that increases performance for demanding workloads across 64G links and up to 31Tb/s of chassis bandwidth to address next-generation I/O-intensive and bandwidth-intensive applications. In addition, the Brocade X7 Director increases scalability with double the throughput for high-density VM deployments and larger fabrics.

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Simplified Scale-Out Network Design

Brocade UltraScale chassis connectivity leverages optical Inter-Chassis Links (ICLs). These links can connect up to 12 Brocade Gen 5, Gen 6, or Gen 7 directors, enabling flatter, faster, and simpler fabrics that increase consolidation while reducing network complexity and costs. UltraScale ICLs enable scalable core-edge and active-active mesh chassis typologies, which reduce interswitch cabling by 75%. With the UltraScale ICL connections residing on the core routing blades up to 33% more device ports are available for server and storage connectivity.


Technical specifications

Fibre Channel ports CR64-8 and CR64-4 CR blades: E_Port, EX_Port, and D_Port.
FC32-X7-48, FC64-48 port blades: F_Port, E_Port, EX_Port, M_Port, SIM, and D_Port.
Self-discovery is based on switch type (U_Port) with an optional port type control.
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.
ISL trunking Frame-based trunking with up to eight 64Gb/s ports per ISL trunk; up to 256Gb/s per ISL trunk; exchange-based load balancing across ISLs with DPS included in Brocade FOS.
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).
Data traffic types Fabric switches supporting unicast, multicast (255 groups), and broadcast
Media types Brocade FC64-48 port blade: Supports hot-pluggable Brocade Fibre Channel SFP+ at 8/10/16/32Gb/s SWL/LWL/ELWL and 64Gb/s SWL.
Brocade FC32-X7-48 port blade: Supports hot-pluggable Brocade Fibre Channel SFP+ at 4/8/10/16/32Gb/s SWL/LWL/ELWL. (F_Port connectivity only when connected at 4Gb/s speed.)
Core Routing (CR) blades, Brocade CR64-4 and CR64-8: Support hot-pluggable Brocade Fibre Channel Gen 7 SWL QSFP, 4×32Gb/s SWL QSFP, and 4×32Gb/s QSFP for ICL connections.
USB One USB port per control processor for firmware download, support save, and configuration upload or download.
Fabric services Adaptive Networking (QoS); BB Credit Recovery; Brocade Advanced Zoning (Default Zoning, Port/WWN Zoning); Dynamic Path Selection (DPS); Extended Fabrics; Fabric Congestion Notification; Fabric Vision; FDMI; Flow Vision; FSPF; Integrated Routing; ISL Trunking; Management Server; N_Port Trunking; NPIV; NTP v3; Peer Zoning; Port Fencing; Registered State Change Notification (RSCN); Reliable Commit Service (RCS); Simple Name Server (SNS); Syslog; Target-Driven Zoning; Traffic Optimizer; Virtual Fabrics (Logical Switch, Logical Fabric).
Extension Supports DWDM, CWDM, and FC-SONET Devices; Fibre Channel; In-flight Compression (Brocade LZO) and Encryption (AES-GCM-256); BB Credit Recovery.
Chassis Single Chassis:
Brocade X7-8: Non-blocking architecture
X7-8 Director with 48 64Gb/s port blades: 31Tb/s of aggregate chassis bandwidth (384 device ports with a 64Gb/s data rate plus 32 4xGen7 ICLs)
Brocade X7-4:Non-blocking architecture
X7-4 Director with 48 64Gb/s port blades: 15.5Tb/s of aggregate chassis bandwidth (192 device ports with a 64Gb/s 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.
Brocade FC64-48 port blade provides 48 ports of 64Gb/s Fibre Channel.
Brocade FC32-X7-48 port blade provides 48 ports of 32Gb/s Fibre Channel.
Ethernet ports Brocade 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.
Brocade 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.
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 Brocade CR64-4 blades. For trunks that contain four or fewer QSFP ports, ports in a trunk must be located in the same port group on each blade.
Up to four QSFP ports in a trunk group between a Brocade CR64-4 blade and a CR64-8 blade. For trunks that contain four or fewer QSFP ports, ports in a trunk must be located 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 Brocade CR64-8 (CR64-4) and CR32-8 (CR32-4).
Multichassis 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 Brocade X7-8: 31Tb/s per chassis with 384 device ports + 32 UltraScale ICL connections supporting 128 ports.
Brocade X7-4: 15.5Tb/s per chassis with 192 device ports + 16 UltraScale ICL connections supporting 64 ports.
Slot bandwidth 3072Gb/s (line rate) providing line-rate performance for the Brocade FC64-48 blade.
Service Weblink http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services
Support Pack Options Available in major metropolitan areas:
9x5, Next Business Day Onsite Response Time
9x5, 4h Onsite Response Time (depending on country)
24x7, 4h Onsite Response Time (depending on country)
Recommended Service 24x7, Onsite Response Time: 4h

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