DELL Brocade DCX 8510-8 210-39022 Ficha De Dados

Media types

16 Gbps: Brocade FC16-32 and -48 require  

Brocade hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector;  

16 Gbps SWL, LWL, ELWL
10 Gbps: Brocade FC16-32 and -48 require Brocade 

hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 10 Gbps SWL, LWL
8 Gbps: Brocade FC16-32 and -48; Brocade FC8-32E 

and -48E; Brocade FX8-24; and Brocade FS8-18 blades 

require Brocade hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector;  

8 Gbps SWL, LWL, ELWL
8 Gbps: Brocade FC8-64 blades require Brocade hot-

pluggable mSFP, mSFP LC connector; 8 Gbps SWL only
UltraScale ICL QSFP: Brocade CR16-8 and CR16-4 

require Brocade hot-pluggable QSFP, MTP connector; 

4×16 Gbps SWL (50 m OM3, 100 m OM4)
Fibre Channel distance subject to fiber-optic cable 

and port speed

USB

1 USB port per control processor for firmware download, 

support save, and configuration upload/download

Fabric services

Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring (APM) 

(including Top Talkers for E_Ports, F_Ports, and Fabric 

mode); Brocade Adaptive Networking (Ingress Rate 

Limiting, Traffic Isolation, QoS); Bottleneck Detection; 

Brocade Advanced Zoning (default zoning, port/WWN 

zoning, broadcast zoning); Dynamic Fabric 

Provisioning (DFP); Dynamic Path Selection (DPS); 

Brocade Extended Fabrics; Enhanced BB credit 

recovery; Brocade Fabric Watch; FDMI; Flow Vision; 

Frame Redirection; Frame-based Trunking; FSPF; 

Integrated Routing; IPoFC; Brocade ISL Trunking; 

Management Server; Monitoring and Alerting Policy 

Suite (MAPS); NPIV; NTP v3; Port Fencing; Registered 

State Change Notification (RSCN); Reliable Commit 

Service (RCS); Brocade Server Application 

Optimization (SAO); Simple Name Server (SNS); Virtual 

Fabrics (Logical Switch, Logical Fabric)

Extension

Supports DWDM, CWDM, and FC-SONET devices; 

Fibre Channel, in-flight compression (Brocade LZO) 

and encryption (AES-GCM-256) BB credit recovery; 

FCIP, Adaptive Rate Limiting (ARL), data compression, 

Fast Write, read/write Tape Pipelining, QoS

FICON

FICON cascading (Brocade Fabric OS: Brocade DCX 

8510-8, DCX 8510-4); support for lossless DLS; FICON 

CUP; Advanced Accelerator for FICON (FICON Global 

Mirror and XRC emulation and read/write Tape Pipelining). 

The Brocade FC8-64 blade does not support FICON.

High Availability

Architecture

Passive backplane; redundant active/passive control 

processor; redundant active/active core switching 

blades; redundant WWN cards

Chassis power

Two 2000 W AC power supply modules (100 to 240 V 

auto-sensing), 2N redundancy; Brocade DCX 8510-8 

supports two additional power modules

Cooling

Brocade DCX 8510-8: Three blower assembly modules 

(two required for operation)
Brocade DCX 8510-4: Two blower assembly modules 

(one required for operation)

Solution availability

Designed to provide 99.999 percent 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

Management

Management

HTTP, SNMP v1/v3 (FE MIB, FC Management MIB), 

SSH; Auditing, Syslog; Brocade Advanced Web Tools, 

Brocade Network Advisor SAN Enterprise or Brocade 

Network Advisor SAN Professional Plus; Command 

Line Interface (CLI); SMI-S compliant; Administrative 

Domains; trial licenses for add-on capabilities

Security

AES-GCM-256 encryption on ISLs; DH-CHAP (between 

switches and end devices), FCAP switch authentication; 

FIPS 140-2 L2-compliant, HTTPS, IPsec, IP filtering, LDAP 

with IPv6, OpenLDAP, Port Binding, RADIUS, User-defined 

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Secure Copy (SCP), 

Secure RPC, SFTP, SSH v2, SSL, Switch Binding, 

TACACS+, Trusted Switch

Management 

access

10/100/1000 Ethernet (RJ-45) per control processor, 

in-band over Fibre Channel; serial port (RJ-45) and 

one USB per control processor module; call-home 

integration enabled through Brocade Network Advisor

Diagnostics

Built-in flow generator, ClearLink optics and cable 

diagnostics, including electrical/optical loopback, link 

traffic/latency/distance; POST and embedded online/

offline diagnostics, including environmental 

monitoring, FCping and Pathinfo (FC traceroute), flow 

mirroring, frame viewer, non-disruptive daemon 

restart, port mirroring, optics health monitoring, power 

monitoring (16 Gbps blades-only), RAStrace logging, 

and Rolling Reboot Detection (RRD)

BROCADE DCX 8510 BACKBONE SPECIFICATIONS (CONTINUED)