HP 1606 DATA CENTER Best Practices Guide: High Density Cable Management Soluti - Page 4

DATA CENTER BEST PRACTICES GUIDE Overview of the FC8-64 FC port blade The Brocade® FC8-64 high density 64-port Fibre Channel blade (Figure 1) for the DCX® Backbone family combines industry leading port density, performance, scalability, and reliability to maximize the benefits of SAN and server consolidation. It's the industry's first and only 64-port 8 Gbps Fibre Channel blade that enables mid to large enterprise customers to deploy high density modular chassis-based solutions to minimize physical footprint without compromising performance. The new high density Fibre Channel port blade increases the chassis density by 25%, enabling the DCX to scale up to 512 ports and the DCX-4S to scale up to 256 ports with 8 Gbps performance. The Brocade DCX family provides nearly six times the performance of competitive offerings. Performance capabilities include: Brocade DCX: • Up to 512 ports operating simultaneously at full 8 Gbps speed • Up to 1024 ports in a single rack (two chassis) • 4.096 Tbps of chassis bandwidth Brocade DCX-4S: • Up to 256 ports operating simultaneously at full 8 Gbps speed • Up to 768 ports in a single rack (three chassis) • 2.048 Tbps of chassis bandwidth Figure 1. Brocade DCX with FC8-64 FC port blade Brocade DCX Cable Management 4 of 23