Data transmission
| Supported data transfer rates |
8 Gbit/s |
| Maximum data transfer rate |
8 Gbit/s |
Ports & interfaces
| Basic switching RJ-45 Ethernet ports quantity |
3 |
| SFP+ module slots quantity |
8 |
| Fiber ports quantity |
18 |
| Console port |
RS-232 |
| SFP/SFP+ slots quantity |
8 |
Protocols
| Management protocols |
SNMP, HTTP, SMI |
Other features
| Ethernet LAN data rates |
10, 100 Mbit/s |
Power over Ethernet (PoE)
| Power over Ethernet (PoE) |
N |
Networking
| 10G support |
N |
| Full duplex |
Y |
Additionally
| Ethernet LAN connection |
Y |
Primergy BX Fibre Channel Switch, 18x8 Gbit/s FC, 55W, 1.5kg
Primergy BX Fibre Channel Switch 8 Gbit/s 18/8 Blade Server and Fibre Channel SANs form an ideal infrastructure for maximizing consolidation and server virtualization benefits. By connecting blade servers and SAN switch platforms of the highest density Fujitsu and Brocade offer extraordinary performance, reliability and flexibility.
Primergy BX Blade Servers can benefit from the technology used in the Brocade DCX Backbone via the Brocade scwitches. The advantages: more endto- end performance, higher service quality (QoS) and availability management. These extended fabric services simplify SAN management and automate administrative tasks, thus maximizing perfomance and availability.
As a result of the low number of SAN components and without any additional fans or power supply units, the Brocade 5450 reduces SAN complexity and avoids many of the usual HW failures.
Extended SAN management, redundant I/O paths and the hot-plug design mean that the Primergy BX blade servers have the highest availability and failsafe levels.
Up to 18 internal server blade ports are consolidated to a maximum of 8 shared SAN ports. This greatly reduces the number of cables, SFPs and core fabric ports.
Only half the number of ports and Inter-Switch Links (ISLs) are required for the same workload with enough reserve for growth and expansion. Using the doubled bandwidth of 4 Gb networks, each server blade can host more virtual machines, thus guaranteeing greater performance and availability.
