Brocade X7-4 Gen 7 Fibre Channel Director

Foundation for the on-demand data center

Entry modular building block, purpose-built for scalability and power large-scale storage environments with autonomous SAN capabilities.

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Foundation for the on-demand data center

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Purpose-built for enterprise deployments

The Brocade X7-4 Gen 7 Fibre Channel Director is designed to easily manage large enterprise environments requiring increased capacity, greater throughput, and higher levels of resiliency. Plus, it increases agility with concurrent Fibre Channel, NVMe, FICON, FCIP, or FCoE connectivity. Businesses can rely on its three generations of backward-compatibility support, 8U form factor, and Gen 7 integrated security.

Maximize performance and results

Industry-leading Gen 7 FC with increased performance, up to 15.5Tb/s of chassis bandwidth, breakthrough performance that speeds up data-intensive application response times, and improved Service Level Agreements (SLAs). It can easily manage high transaction workloads with 50% lower network latency and can transform telemetry data into actionable insights to optimize performance and ensure reliability.

Simplified, scale-out network design

Leverage optical Inter-Chassis Links (ICLs) with Brocade UltraScale chassis connectivity that offers faster, and simpler fabrics that increase consolidation while reducing network complexity and costs. Easily increase server port and storage capacity, simplify management, maximize visibility, and streamline operations with a modern SAN management tool.

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ATTRIBUTE	SPECIFICATION
Base Model	Brocade X7-4 includes: Two core routing blades Two control processor modules 4-port rail kits Software (Fabric Vision, Trunking, Extended Fabrics, Integrated routing, and CUP)
Chassis	Four open-blade slots
Fibre Channel Blades	48-port blade with 48 64Gb Fibre Channel SFP+ transceivers or 48 32Gb SFP+ transceivers 64-port blade with sixteen 4x32Gb Fibre Channel SWL QSFP+ transceivers for 64 32Gb connections.
Extension Blades	Brocade SX6 Extension Blade provides Fibre Channel extension (16×32Gb Fibre Channel ports) and IP extension over IP networks (16×1GbE/10GbE and 2×40GbE ports)
Performance	4/8/10/16/32/64Gb line speed, full duplex. Autosensing of 4/8/16/32/64Gb port speeds depending on SFPs used, support for speed matching 10Gb 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 2304 Fibre Channel ports; UltraScale ICL ports (16 per 4-slot chassis, optical QSFP) connect to 9 chassis in a full-mesh topology or up to 12 chassis in a core-edge topology
Chassis Bandwidth	15.5Tb/s of aggregate chassis bandwidth (192 device ports with a 64Gb/s data rate plus 16 4xGen7 ICLs)
Chassis Power	Two PSUs for 1+1 redundancy Choice of AC or High Voltage PSUs
Cooling	Requires two 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	8U rack-mountable chassis It also comes standard with a 1U airflow diversion rack-mount kit making the total chassis 9U
Dimensions (H x W x D)	34.45cm x 43.74cm x 61.04cm (13.56" x 17.23" x 24.04")

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