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31 May 2012

Brocade 7800

Extension Switch

Hardware Reference Manual

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Document History

Corporate and Latin American Headquarters

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

130 Holger Way

San Jose, CA 95134

Tel: 1-408-333-8000

Fax: 1-408-333-8101

E-mail: inf[email protected]

Asia-Pacific Headquarters

Brocade Communications Systems China HK, Ltd.

No. 1 Guanghua Road

Chao Yang District

Units 2718 and 2818

Beijing 100020, China

Tel: +8610 6588 8888

Fax: +8610 6588 9999

E-mail: [email protected]

European Headquarters

Brocade Communications Switzerland Sàrl

Centre Swissair

Tour B - 4ème étage

29, Route de l'Aéroport

Case Postale 105

CH-1215 Genève 15

Switzerland

Tel: +41 22 799 5640

Fax: +41 22 799 5641

E-mail: emea-inf[email protected]m

Asia-Pacific Headquarters

Brocade Communications Systems Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen WFOE)

Citic Plaza

No. 233 Tian He Road North

Unit 1308 – 13th Floor

Guangzhou, China

Tel: +8620 3891 2000

Fax: +8620 3891 2111

E-mail: [email protected]

Title Publication number Summary of changes Date

Brocade 7800 Extension Switch

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53-1001350-01 New document July 2009

Brocade 7800 Extension Switch

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53-1001350-02 BSMI statement updated. October 2011

Brocade 7800 Extension Switch

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53-1001350-03 Auto MDI/MDIX support

added. Copper and optical

port clarifications added.

February 2012

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statement added

May 2012

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Contents

About this document

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

Supported hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

What’s new in this document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

Text formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

Command syntax conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

Command examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Notes, cautions, and warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Key terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Brocade resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Other industry resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Optional Brocade Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Getting technical help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

Chapter 1 Introducing the Brocade 7800 Extension Switch

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Overview of Brocade 7800 Extension Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Brocade 7800 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Port side of the Brocade 7800. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Nonport side of the Brocade 7800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Brocade 7800 management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Chapter 2 Installing and configuring the Brocade 7800

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Installation and safety considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Items included with the Brocade 7800 Extension Switch . . . . . . . . . 8

Setting up the Brocade 7800 Extension Switch as a standalone

unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Installing in an EIA cabinet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

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Initial setup of the Brocade 7800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Providing power to the switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Creating a serial connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Connecting to the Brocade 7800 using the serial connection . 11

Setting the switch IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Changing the switch name and chassis name . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Creating an Ethernet connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Setting the Brocade 7800 domain ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Setting the Brocade 7800 date and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Synchronizing local time with an external source . . . . . . . . . . .14

Correcting the time zone of a Brocade 7800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

FCIP and Fibre Channel routing services configuration . . . . . . 16

Installing SFPs and cabling the Brocade 7800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Verifying correct operation and backup the configuration . . . . 17

Recommendations for cable management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Chapter 3 Operating the Brocade 7800 Extension Switch

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

LED activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

LEDs on the port side of the Extension Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

LEDs on the nonport side of the Brocade 7800 . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Interpreting POST results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Brocade 7800 maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Powering off the Brocade 7800. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Appendix A Product specifications

In this appendix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Brocade 7800 components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Weight and physical dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Facility requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Power supply specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Environmental requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Power cords (Japan, Denan). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

General specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Data transmission ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Memory specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Fibre Channel port specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

GbE port specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Serial port specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

POST and boot specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

POST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Boot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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Regulatory compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

FCC warning (US only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

KCC statement (Republic of Korea) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

VCCI statement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Power cords (Japan Denan). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

China statement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

BSMI statement (Taiwan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

CE Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Canadian requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Laser compliance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

RTC battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Electrical safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Regulatory certifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Index

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About this document

In this chapter

•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

•Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

•What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

•Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

•Additional information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

•Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

•Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

How this document is organized

This document is organized to help you find the information that you need as quickly and easily as

possible. The document begins with an introduction to the Brocade 7800 and proceeds through

installation and operation procedures.

The document contains the following components:

•Chapter 1, “Introducing the Brocade 7800 Extension Switch” provides a brief overview of the

Brocade 7800 itself.

•Chapter 2, “Installing and configuring the Brocade 7800” describes the installation procedures

for the Brocade 7800.

•Chapter 3, “Operating the Brocade 7800 Extension Switch” provides an overview of Brocade

7800 operation.

•Appendix A, “Product specifications” provides all of the technical specifications for the Brocade

7800.

Supported hardware and software

Although many different software and hardware configurations are tested and supported by

Brocade Communications Systems, documenting all possible configurations and scenarios is

beyond the scope of this document.

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What’s new in this document

The Chinese regulatory statement has been added. “China statement.”

Document conventions

This section describes text formatting conventions and important notice formats used in this

document.

Text formatting

The narrative-text formatting conventions that are used are as follows:

bold text Identifies command names

Identifies the names of user-manipulated GUI elements

Identifies keywords and operands

Identifies text to enter at the GUI or CLI

italic text Provides emphasis

Identifies variables

Identifies paths and Internet addresses

Identifies document titles

code text Identifies CLI output

Identifies command syntax examples

For readability, command names in the narrative portions of this guide are presented in mixed

lettercase: for example, switchShow. In actual examples, command lettercase is often all

lowercase. Otherwise, this manual specifically notes those cases in which a command is case

sensitive.

Command syntax conventions

Command syntax in this manual follows these conventions:

command Commands are printed in bold.

--option, option Command options are printed in bold.

-argument, arg Arguments.

[ ] Optional element.

variable Variables are printed in italics. In the help pages, values are underlined or

enclosed in angled brackets < >.

... Repeat the previous element, for example “member[;member...]”

value Fixed values following arguments are printed in plain font. For example,

--show WWN

| Boolean. Elements are exclusive. Example: --show -mode egress | ingress

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Command examples

This book describes how to perform configuration tasks using the Fabric OS command line

interface, but does not describe the commands in detail. For complete descriptions of all

Fabric OS commands, including syntax, operand description, and sample output, see the

Fabric OS Command Reference.

Notes, cautions, and warnings

The following notices and statements are used in this manual. They are listed below in order of

increasing severity of potential hazards.

NOTE

A note provides a tip, guidance or advice, emphasizes important information, or provides a

reference to related information.

ATTENTION

An Attention statement indicates potential damage to hardware or data.

CAUTION

A Caution statement alerts you to situations that can be potentially hazardous to you.

DANGER

A Danger statement indicates conditions or situations that can be potentially lethal or

extremely hazardous to you. Safety labels are also attached directly to products to warn of

these conditions or situations.

Key terms

For definitions specific to Brocade and Fibre Channel, see the Brocade Glossary.

For definitions of SAN-specific terms, visit the Storage Networking Industry Association online

dictionary at:

http://www.snia.org/education/dictionary

Notice to the reader

This document may contain references to the trademarks of the following corporations. These

trademarks are the properties of their respective companies and corporations.

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These references are made for informational purposes only.

Additional information

This section lists additional Brocade and industry-specific documentation that you might find

helpful.

Brocade resources

To get up-to-the-minute information, join MyBrocade. It’s free! Go to http://www.brocade.com

and click MyBrocade to register at no cost for a user ID and password.

For practical discussions about SAN design, implementation, and maintenance, you can obtain

Building SANs with Brocade Fabric Switches through:

http://www.amazon.com

For additional Brocade documentation, visit the Brocade SAN Info Center and click the

Resource Library location:

http://www.brocade.com

Release notes are available on the MyBrocade Web site and are also bundled with the Fabric

OS firmware.

Other industry resources

•White papers, online demos, and data sheets are available through the Brocade Web site

at http://www.brocade.com/products/software.jhtml.

•Best practice guides, white papers, data sheets, and other documentation is available

through the Brocade Partner Web site.

For additional resource information, visit the Technical Committee T11 Web site. This Web site

provides interface standards for high-performance and mass storage applications for Fibre

Channel, storage management, and other applications:

http://www.t11.org

For information about the Fibre Channel industry, visit the Fibre Channel Industry Association

Web site:

http://www.fibrechannel.org

Optional Brocade Features

Optional Brocade features include:

Corporation Referenced Trademarks and Products

Microsoft Corporation Windows, HyperTerminal, NT, 2000, 2003, ME, XP

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