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The Brocade VDX 6710-54 is a low-cost Ethernet switch that is VCS capable.
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Footnote 1: Ports on Demand (POD) enables ports to
be added. Default is
16 ports enabled with a single 8 POD license available to support a total
of 32 ports
Footnote 2: Twinax and
SFP optical connectivity options.
Footnote 3: Complete FCoE support including
multi-hop (license required)

and iSCSI Data Center Bridging support (DCB).
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Footnote 1: Ports on Demand (POD) enables ports to
be added. Default is
40 ports enabled with two 10 POD licenses available to support a total of
60 GE ports
Footnote 2: Twinax and SFP optical connectivity options

Footnote 3: Complete FCoE support including
multi-hop (license required)

and iSCSI Data Center Bridging support (DCB)
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TOR is top of rack
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The VDX 6710 and 6730 switches support convergence through iSCSI, FCoE, and FC
protocol support and also are part of a VCS fabric. The VDX 6710 is a Ethernet switch that
can be part of a VCS fabric.
Footnote 1: The 1GbE ports do not support DCB so the iSCSI TLV is not supported however
iSCSI traffic can be still go across these ports. iSCSI TLV is supported on the 10 GbE ports.
Footnote 2: Cannot attach an FCoE device to a port on this switch however FCoE traffic can
flow through the 10 G (Trill) ports as long as the destination is not on that switch. As the
switch would look at the destination RB and modify the outer header with next hop
information so the switch would never look at the type of traffic in that frame.
Footnote 3: The 1 GbE ports can not be used as ISL connections to other switches in the
fabric.
Footnote 4: The FC ports can only be used as E_Port (VDX switch) to EX_Port (SAN router)
connection. Cannot directly attach a FC end device to any of the FC ports on the VDX 6730
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Traditional networks have three tiers: Core, aggregation and access. The VDX products
allow the aggregation and access tier to be combined into an edge tier. This is not a
requirement as networks could still be setup with the traditional three tiers.
This is a network convergence use case. Tier 1 applications still have native FC connections
to the SAN for an air-gap, and to provide the highest performance and resilient connection
to block resources. Servers with CNAs can access FC and FCoE resources with a DCB
connection from the Ethernet fabric into the core of the FC SAN.
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One LED (green) to indicate valid system power.

One LED (green/amber) to indicate system status.
Console Port: RJ-45 port using RS-232 for console access such as configuring the switch
and maintenance.
Out of Band Management: RJ-45 Ethernet port for out-of-band management.
Two Ethernet LEDs (integrated with RJ-45 connector) to indicate speed and link status.
RLOM port: Remote Lights Out Management (RLOM) port for switch management. Review
release notes for usage information.
USB port: Brocade branded USB only, used for firmware management and downloading
system support (log) information.
Switch ID and MAC Address tab: Switch ID pull-out tab containing serial number and MAC
address.
SFP+ ports 6 1/10 Gbps SFP+ ports and 48 1 Gbps RJ45 copper ports
Port LEDs (green/amber) to indicate status for each port
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and maintenance.
RLOM port: Remote Lights Out Management (RLOM) port for switch management . Review
address.
SFP+ ports 6 1/10 Gbps SFP+ ports and 48 1 Gbps RJ45 copper ports
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Note: The illustration shows only port numbers, not port groups. Port groups are described
in the Architecture section.
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The integrated power supply/fans for the VDX 6710-54 and 6730-32 share the same part
number. You can interchange the integrated power supply/fans but make sure the power
supply/fan uses the correct airflow. The airflow options are described in more detail later in
this module.
Also, the integrated power supply/fan FRU can also be used with the VDX 6720-24.
On the non-port side of the switch enclosure, each power supply/fan FRU has a
green/amber LED to indicate the status of the FRU. A steady green light indicates that the
FRU is on and operating normally. If there is an amber light, the power is faulty, indicates
power is on or off.
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and maintenance.
RLOM port: Remote Lights Out Management (RLOM) port for switch management . Review
address.
SFP+ ports: 24 1/10 Gbps SFP+ ports and 8 Gbps FC ports
Port LEDs (green/amber) to indicate status for each port.
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The integrated power supply/fans for the VDX 6710-54 and 6730-32 share the same part
number. You can interchange the integrated power supply/fans but make sure the power
supply/fan uses the correct airflow. The airflow options are described in more detail later in
this module.
Also, the integrated power supply/fan FRU can also be used with the VDX 6720-24.
On the non-port side of the switch enclosure, each power supply/fan FRU has a
FRU is on and operating normally. If there is an amber light, the power is faulty.
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and maintenance.
RLOM port: Remote Lights Out Management (RLOM) port for switch management. Review
address.
SFP+ ports 60 1/10 Gbps SFP+ ports and 16 8 Gbps FC ports
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The VDX 6730-76 power supply can be used with the VDX 6720-60 switch. You can
interchange the power supply FRU but make sure the power supply FRU uses the correct
airflow. The airflow options are described in more detail later in this module.
On the non-port side of the switch enclosure, each power supply FRU has a green/amber
LED to indicate the status of the FRU. A steady green light indicates that the FRU is on and
operating normally. If off, then no AC power. If there is an amber light, the power is faulty. If
off, then normal operation.
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Footnote 1: When ordering FRUs, verify that the part number supports the correct airflow.
You must replace a failed unit with the same type of unit. This applies to both power
supplies and fan assemblies.
A new FRU must have the same part number (P/N) as the FRU being replaced. The
manufacturing P/N is located on the top of the FRU.
The P/N ends in either -F (front-to-back airflow) or -R (back/rear-to-front airflow). You must
use a replacement FRU that the same airflow designator with the part number.
Additionally, you can use external labels as a guide. Some FRUs are labeled with an airflow
symbol on the faceplate to indicate whether the assembly takes in or exhausts air. The
symbol also appears on the top of the assembly.
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Footnote 1: Fully-loaded Brocade 6710-54 with two integrated fans and powers supply
assemblies, and zero SFPs installed. For more information on specifications, review the
Brocade 6720 data sheet available from www.brocade.com or review the Brocade 6710
Hardware Reference Manual.
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Footnote 1: Optical media port status is for both 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps ports.
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Footnote 1: Fully-loaded Brocade 6730-32 with two integrated fans and powers supply
assemblies, and zero SFPs installed. For more information on specifications, review the
Brocade 6730 data sheet available from www.brocade.com or review the Brocade 6730
Hardware Reference Manual.
Footnote 2: Fully-loaded VDX 6730-76 with two power supplies, three fan assemblies, and
zero SFPs installed. For more information on specifications, review the Brocade 6730 data
sheet available from www.brocade.com or review the Brocade 6730 Hardware Reference
Manual.
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Footnote 1: Replacement of the integrated power supply/fan FRU must match the airflow
direction of the failed FRU. If the airflow does not match, a warning message is generated.
Footnote 2: Replacement power supply or fan must match airflow direction of the failed
FRU.
When ordering FRUs, verify that the part number supports the correct airflow. You must
replace a failed unit with the same type of unit. This applies to both power supplies and fan
assemblies.
A new FRU must have the same part number (P/N) as the FRU being replaced. The
manufacturing P/N is located on the top of the FRU.
If the P/N ends in either -F (front-to-rear airflow) or -R (rear-to-front airflow), you must use a
replacement FRU that the same airflow designator with the part number.
Additionally, you can use external labels as a guide. Some FRUs are labeled with an airflow
symbol on the faceplate to indicate whether the assembly takes in or exhausts air. The
symbol also appears on the top of the assembly.
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Footnote 1: An FCoE license enables FCoE on the Brocade VDX 6720 platforms. Since FCoE requires
a VCS fabric, a VCS Fabric license is a prerequisite for enabling FCoE in a fabric with more than two
switches. In addition, a separate FCoE license is required to enable FCoE on a VCS edge port.
Without an FCoE license, FCoE logins are not permitted, and all FCoE commands with the exception
of a few commands return an error of No FCoE license present when executed.
Footnote 2: Brocade Multi-Node license . Enables configuring a VCS Ethernet fabric with up to
ten Brocade VDX 6710 or 6730 switches. (With NOS v2.1.1, you can have up to 24 Brocade
VDX 6710 or 6730 switches in an Ethernet fabric.) When there are more than two switches
in the fabric, each switch must have a VCS Multi-node license installed. You do not need a
VCS multi-node license if your VCS fabric does not exceed a total of two Brocade VDX 6710
or 6730 switches.
Footnote 3: A Dynamic POD license allows you to instantly scale the fabric by provisioning additional
ports on the Brocade VDX 6730 platforms. Licenses are assigned dynamically from a pool of
resources based on auto-detection of active links. There is no POD license available for the VDX
6710 as all ports are active.
switch# show license id
rbridge-id License ID
========================================
2 10:00:00:05:1E:00:4C:80
Footnote 4: See release notes for more information.
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VDX3# show license rbridge-id 3

rbridge-id: 3
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
FCoE Base license
Feature name:FCOE_BASE
Ports on Demand license - additional 8 port upgrade license
Feature name:PORTS_ON_DEMAND_1
VCS Fabric license
Feature name:VCS_FABRIC
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For the VDX 6730-32, by default, FC ports 1 8 and ports 1-16 are active. Ports 17 24
can be activated with a POD license as shown in the illustration.
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For the VDX 6730-76 by default, FC ports 1 16 and ports 1 40 are active. Ports 41 60
can be activated with POD licenses (one license per 10 ports) as shown in the illustration.
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Footnote 1: The management port 10/100/1000 Ethernet (RJ-45) includes two LEDs: link
and activity. For link, on indicates link is active, off indicates no link. For Activity, blinking
indicates activity and off indicates no activity.
The serial port parameters are fixed at the following:
9600 baud
8 data bits
No parity
No hardware flow control
The USB port is used for Brocade branded-USB drives which are used for firmware download
and storing support information such as logs.
Footnote 2: Review the release notes for information on RLOM support.
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As shown above, the VDX 6710-54 platform contains three eAnvil2 ASICs.
eAnvil2 1: Front end ports are 14 x 1 Gbe ports and 6 x 10 Gbe ports. It also has 4 x 10
Gbe back end connections to the eAnvil2 2 ASIC.
eAnvil2 2: Contains 13 x 1 Gbe front end ports and acts as a back end core ASIC for frame
routing between the ASICs. There are 2 x 10 Gbe connections from the front end to the back
end of the ASIC for routing to the other two ASICs.
eAnvil2 3: Contains 21 x 1 Gbe front end ports and 3 x 10 Gbe back end ports
Over subscription: There is no over subscription.
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As shown above, the VDX 6730-32 platform contains one eAnvil2 and one Condor2 ASIC.
The eAnvil2 ASIC support 2 RTE(Routing Engine) and each RTE supports 12, 10/1 Gbps
Ethernet Ports. So every packet coming in through the external SFP+ interfaces destined to
external ports are switched in a single stage within the eAnvil2 ASIC.
There is no over subscription for network traffic.
FC Traffic over subscription worst case would be 240:64 (15:4)

240 24 x 10 GbE FCoE devices
64 8 x 8 Gbps FC traffic between the eAnavil2 ASIC and the Condor 2
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As shown above, the forwarding plane on VDX6730-76 platform contains nine eAnvil2 ASICs and
one Condor2 ASIC. There are six eAnvil2 ASICs, each providing 10 external SFP+ interfaces, which
are connected to three additional eAnvil2 ASICs providing the interconnectivity. The six front facing
eAnvil2 ASICs support local switching. i.e if port-1 needs to send the data to port-2, the packet can
be switched locally within a single eAnvil2 ASIC. However unlike the VDX6730-32 design, the
incoming packets on SFP+ ports destined to an external port can now go through three different
eAnvil2 ASICs if the source and destination port are on different eAnvil2 ASICs.
The Condor2 ASIC provides Fiber Channel switching functionality. Each of the six eAnvil2 ASICs are
connected to the Condor2 ASIC using a 4 link trunk. The Condor2 ASIC provides 16 external 8G Fiber
Channel interfaces.
Over subscription: There is no over subscription for traditional network traffic (non-FCoE) as each
front end ASIC has 10 x 10 Gbe front end ports and 4x10 to each of the 3 back end ASICs to the
maximum front end bandwidth would be 10 x 10 Gbe = 100 Gbe. The back end connections are 4
links x 10 Gbe x 3 (ASICs) = 120 Gbe bandwidth.
FC over subscription: The FC connections the front end eAnvil2 ASICs and the Condor2 is 4 x 8 so
the worst case would be to have 10 FCoE devices on one front end ASIC (example ports 1-10). In
that case the worst case FCoE traffic would be 100 Gbe to 32 FC (bandwidth connection from
eAnvil2) to Condor2) 100:32 (25:8).
FCoE best practice: Unless you know the FCoE usage limit the FCoE connections 3 per ASIC. If this is
done there would be no over subscriptions on the internal connections. Of course there would still
be worst case over subscriptions 3 (FCoE connections) x 10 Gbe x 6 ASICs = 180 Gbe to 16 front
end links x 8 Gbps = 128 Gbps (180:128 or 45;32). To insure no over subscription limit the FCoE
device to 12 and put no more then 3 per eAnvil2 ASIC.
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Footnote 1: For information on updated optic (transceiver) part numbers, go to

www.brocade.com. Search on the phrase, transceivers, to locate information on available
optics and part numbers.
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Footnote 1: For information on updated optic (transceiver) part numbers, go to

www.brocade.com. Search on the phrase, transceivers, to locate information on available
optics and part numbers.
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Footnote 1: The maximum distance between VDX ILSs is 200 m.
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Footnote 1: The following items are required for configuring and connecting the VDX for use
in a network and fabric:
VDX installed and connected to a power source
Workstation with an installed terminal emulator, such as HyperTerminal
Two unused IP addresses and corresponding subnet masks and gateway addresses.
(One for the virtual IP address on the cluster interconnect and another for the
management port.)
Serial cable (provided)
Three Ethernet cables
SFPs and compatible cables, as required
Access to an FTP server for backing up the switch configuration (optional)
A USB stick for collecting the support data (optional). Only those commands supported
by Network OS, such as copy support-interactive. Refer to the
troubleshooting module later in this course for specific commands and their usage.
Footnote 2: Follow the installation instructions shipped with the applicable rack mount kit.
Footnote 3: When mounting into a slide-rail rack, you can mount the chassis to slide from
either the port side or the non-port side.
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Footnote 1: The integrated power supply/fans for the VDX 6710-54 and 6730-32 share the
same part number. You can interchange the integrated power supply/fans but make sure
the power supply/fan uses the correct airflow. Also, the integrated power supply/fan FRU
can also be used with the VDX 6720-24.
Footnote 2: On the non-port side of the switch enclosure, each power supply/Fan FRU has a
FRU is on and operating normally. If there is an amber light, the power is faulty.
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Footnote 1: Power is supplied to the switch as soon as the first power supply is connected
and powered on.
Footnote 2: All devices are returned to their initial state the next time the switch is powered
on.
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For more information, refer to the Brocade VDX 6710 and 6730 Switch Power Supply/Fan
Assembly Replacement Procedure.
Footnote 1 : If the airflow does not match, a warning message is generated. Below are
example warning messages:
WARNING, Brocade6730, MISMATCH in PSU-FAN FRUS Air Flow
direction. Replace PSU with fan air flows in same direction.
WARNING, Brocade6730, MISMATCH in FAN Air Flow direction.
Replace FRU with fan air flows in same direction.
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Footnote 1: The VDX 6730-76 power supply can be used with the VDX 6720-60 switch. You
can interchange the power supply FRU but make sure the power supply FRU uses the
correct airflow.
Footnote 2: On the non-port side of the switch enclosure, each power supply FRU has a
FRU is on and operating normally. If off, then no AC power. If there is an amber light, the
power is faulty. If off, then normal operation.
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Footnote 1: If the airflow does not match, a warning message is generated. Below are
example warning messages:
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Footnote 1: The VDX 6730-76 fan FRU can be used with the VDX 6720-60 switch. You can
interchange the fan FRUs but make sure you order fan FRU uses the correct airflow.
Footnote 2: The three fan FRUs are designed as hot-swappable in a redundant N+1
configuration to ensure that the VDX 6720-60 continues to operate indefinitely and nondisruptively in the event of a single fan FRU failure.
Footnote 3: On the non-port side of the switch enclosure, each fan FRU has a green/amber
LED to indicate the status of the FRU. A steady green light indicates that the FRU is on and
operating normally. If off, then there is no AC power. If there is an amber light, the fan is
faulty. If off, then that indicates normal operations.
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Footnote 1: If the airflow does not match, a warning message is generated. Below are
examples of warning messages:
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Footnote 1: Here is example of the show version command:

VDX3# show version
Network Operating System Software
Network Operating System Version: 2.1.0
Copyright (c) 1995-2010 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
Build Time: 23:39:40 Aug 31, 2011
Firmware name: v2.1.0_beta1
Control Processor: Freescale Semiconductor 8548E with 2000 MB of
memory
Appl
Primary/Secondary Versions
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v2.1.0
v2.1.0
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VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

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VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

Footnote 1: Ports on Demand (POD) enables ports to

Footnote 2: Twinax and

SFP optical connectivity options.

Footnote 3: Complete FCoE support including

multi-hop (license required)

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

Footnote 1: Ports on Demand (POD) enables ports to

Footnote 2: Twinax and SFP optical connectivity options

multi-hop (license required)

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

TOR is top of rack

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

One LED (green) to indicate valid system power.

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

One LED (green) to indicate valid system power.

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

One LED (green) to indicate valid system power.

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

One LED (green) to indicate valid system power.

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

Note: You can also specify the rbridge id as shown below:

VDX3# show license rbridge-id 3

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

FC Traffic over subscription worst case would be 240:64 (15:4)

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

VDX 6710 and 6730 Hardware Overview

Footnote 1: For information on updated optic (transceiver) part numbers, go to