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Brocade 5100 Introduction Chapter 1 In this chapter •Brocade 5100 overview 1 •Port side of the Brocade 5100 2 •Non-port side of the Brocade 5100 4 •Field replaceable units (FRUs 4 •Ports on Demand license 5 •ISL trunking groups 5 Brocade 5100 overview The Brocade 5100 is an Enterprise class 1U, 40-port Fibre Channel 1, 2, 4 or 8 Gbps Fibre Channel switch that offers the next generation Brocade, single-chip architecture for Storage Area Networks (SANs). The Brocade 5100 is designed to function in large-scale enterprise SANs and can also fit the requirements of small to medium-sized work groups. Because the Brocade 5100 has a slim 1U height and a high port count, you can use the Brocade 5100 to create very dense fabrics in a relatively small space. With its flexible Ports On Demand (POD) capability, the Brocade 5100 provides excellent overall value as the foundation of a SAN with the ability to grow with an organization's SAN needs. The Brocade 5100 is the latest mid-range offer from the Brocade family of entry-to-enterprise products. It supports the following features: • Up to 40 ports of high-performance 8 Gbps technology and POD scaling from 24 to 32 or 40 ports. • Support for 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gbps auto-sensing Fibre Channel switch and router ports. • FICON®, FICON Cascading and FICON Control Unit Port ready. • Two hot-swappable, redundant integrated power supply and fan FRUs. • Universal ports that self-configure as E, F, M, or FL ports. Ex_Ports are activated on a per port basis with the optional Integrated Routing license. • Fibre Channel Routing (FCR) service that provides improved scalability and fault isolation (through the optional Integrated Routing license). • An RJ45 Ethernet management port, that in conjunction with EZSwitchSetup, supports switch IP address discovery and configuration, eliminating the need to attach a serial cable to configure the switch IP address and greatly increasing the ease of use. • USB port that provides storage for firmware updates, output of the supportSave command and storage for configuration uploads and downloads • Single motherboard design with 667 MHz PowerPC 440EPx Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) CPU and integrated peripherals which provide high performance. Brocade 5100 Hardware Reference Manual 1 53-1000854-02