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The Dell™ PowerVault™ 51F is an 8-port Fibre Channel switch that consists of a system board, microprocessor board, connectors for supporting up to four dual-port interface cards, and firmware for building and managing a fabric. A fabric is an active, intelligent, and nonshared interconnect scheme for Fibre Channel server and storage nodes. One or more switches interconnected create a Fibre Channel fabric. Figure 1-1 shows the switch view of a PowerVault 51F. This chapter discusses: PowerVault 51F switch features Performance Manageability Reliability Serviceability System components Switching function Embedded port System firmware Universal ports Short-wave laser (SWL) fiber-optic gigabit interface converter (GBIC) module Long-wave laser (LWL) fiber-optic GBIC module Copper GBIC module Hot-pluggable power supplies Introduction 1-1
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