X7-4 and X7‑8 FC Directors
Maximize performance, simplify tasks
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To meet ever-increasing demands for faster, more reliable data access, it is essential for organizations to deploy a modernized infrastructure that reduces latency, increases bandwidth, and ensures continuous availability.
Unprecedented performance is not enough on its own. Powerful analytics and advanced automation capabilities are required to transform current storage networks into an autonomous SAN. This requires a network that is capable of delivering these capabilities to maximize performance, simplify management, and reduce operational costs.
Legacy infrastructure was not designed to support the performance requirements of evolving workloads and NVMe-based storage. In fact, an aging network will impede the performance of the on-demand data center. By modernizing the storage network with Brocade® Gen 7, organizations will enable a faster, more intelligent, and more resilient network. This will maximize the performance, productivity, and efficiency of their storage investments and resources, even as they rapidly scale their environments.
Base Models | Brocade X7-4 and X7-8 include: 2 core routing blades, 2 control processor modules, 4-port rail kits and software (Fabric Vision, Trunking, Extended Fabrics, Integrated routing and CUP) |
Chassis | The X7-4 has 4 open blade slots, while the X7-8 has 8 open blade slots |
Fibre Channel Blades |
48-port blade with 48 64G Fibre Channel SFP+ transceivers or 48 32G SFP+ transceivers 64-port blade with 16 4x32G Fibre Channel SWL QSFP+ transceivers for 64 32G connections |
Extension Blades | Brocade SX6 Extension Blade provides Fibre Channel extension (16×32G Fibre Channel ports) and IP extension over IP networks (16×1GbE/10GbE and 2×40GbE ports). |
Performance | 4/8/10/16/32/64G line speed, full duplex. Autosensing of 4/8/16/32/64G port speeds depending on SFPs used, support for speed matching. 10G port speeds with dedicated SFPs. FCoE: 10GbE, 25GbE, or 40GbE FCoE speeds with FC32-64 port blade |
Multi-chassis 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. |
Chassis Power | X7-8: 4 PSUs for 2+2 redundancy X7-4: 2 PSUs for 1+1 redundancy Choice of AC or High Voltage PSU’s. |
Cooling | X7-8: Requires 3 fan tray assemblies; X7-4: Requires 2 fan tray assemblies |
Airflow | Choice of Non-port side intake or non-port side exhaust PSU’s and fan trays. |
Solution Availability | Designed to provide 99.999% uptime capabilities; hot-pluggable redundant power supplies, fans, WWN cards, processors, core switching, port blades, and optics; online diagnostics; non disruptive firmware download and activation. |
Enclosure | X7-8: 14U rack-mountable chassis; X7-4: 8U rack-mountable chassis |
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To learn more about the Brocade X7-4 and X7-8 FC Directors, contact your Lenovo representative or Business Partner or visit: SAN Fibre Channel Switches product page.
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Document number DS0154, published March 28, 2023. For the latest version, go to lenovopress.lenovo.com/ds0154.