Brocade Communications Systems 6505 Guida rapida per l'utente

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Brocade 6505

Hardware Reference Manual

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Contents

About This Document

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

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

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

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

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

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

Command examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

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

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

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

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

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

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

Getting technical help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Chapter 1 Brocade 6505 Introduction

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

Brocade 6505 overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Platform features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Platform components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Port side of the Brocade 6505. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Nonport side of the Brocade 6505 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Chapter 2 Brocade 6505 Installation and Configuration

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Items included with the Brocade 6505 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Installation and safety considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Electrical considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Environmental considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Cabinet considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Recommendations for cable management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Items required for installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Standalone installation for a Brocade 6505. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Cabinet installation for a Brocade 6505 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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Brocade 6505 configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Providing power to the switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Creating a serial connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Switch IP address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Date and time settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Brocade Inter-Switch Link Trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Brocade Switch Status Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Fabric OS Native and Access Gateway modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Disabling and enabling Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Chapter 3 Brocade 6505 Operation

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Powering the Brocade 6505 on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

LED activity interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Brocade 6505 LEDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

LED locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

LED patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

POST and boot specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

POST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Boot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Interpreting POST results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Brocade 6505 maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Installing an SFP+ transceiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Brocade 6505 management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Chapter 4 Removal and Replacement of Power Supplies and Fans

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Removing and replacing a power supply and fan assembly . . . . . . 27

Determining the need to replace a power supply and

fan assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Time required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Items required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Removing a power supply and fan assembly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Replacing a power supply and fan assembly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Appendix A Brocade 6505 Specifications

In this appendix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Weight and physical dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Facility requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

System power specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Environmental requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

General specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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Data transmission ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Memory specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Fibre Channel port specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Serial port specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Access Gateway default port mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Regulatory compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

FCC warning (US only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

German statement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

KCC statement (Republic of Korea) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

VCCI statement (Japan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Power cords (Japan DENAN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

Chinese statement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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

CE statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

Canadian requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Laser compliance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Electrical cautions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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

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

Regulatory certifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Environmental regulation compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

China RoHS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Index

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About This Document

In this chapter

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

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

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

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

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

•Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

•Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

How this document is organized

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

possible.

The document contains the following components:

•Chapter 1, “Brocade 6505 Introduction” provides an overview of the Brocade 6505 switch, a

feature list, and a look at the appearance of the switch.

•Chapter 2, “Brocade 6505 Installation and Configuration” provides the information needed to

install the switch in your network.

•Chapter 3, “Brocade 6505 Operation” discusses the day-to-day operational procedures for

using the switch.

•Chapter 4, “Removal and Replacement of Power Supplies and Fans” provides procedures for

removing and replacing the field-replaceable units (FRUs).

•Appendix A, “Brocade 6505 Specifications” provides tables of physical, environmental,and

general specifications.

Supported hardware and software

This document includes information specific to the Brocade 6505 running Brocade Fabric OS

version 7.0.1. and later.

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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 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.

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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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 or cause

damage to hardware, firmware, software, or data.

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 technical glossaries on MyBrocade.

See “Brocade resources” on page x for instructions on accessing MyBrocade.

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.

These references are made for informational purposes only.

Corporation Referenced trademarks and products

Microsoft Corporation Windows, Windows NT, Internet Explorer

Oracle Corporation Solaris

Netscape Communications Corporation Netscape

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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, go to http://my.brocade.com to register at no cost for a user ID

and password.

White papers, online demonstrations, and data sheets are available through the Brocade website

at:

http://www.brocade.com/products-solutions/products/index.page

For additional Brocade documentation, visit the Brocade website:

http://www.brocade.com

Release notes are available on the MyBrocade website and are also bundled with the Fabric OS

firmware.

Other industry resources

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

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

website:

http://www.fibrechannel.org

Getting technical help

Contact your switch support supplier for hardware, firmware, and software support, including

product repairs and part ordering. To expedite your call, have the following information available:

1. General Information

•Switch model

•Switch operating system version

•Error numbers and messages received

Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat, Red Hat Network, Maximum RPM, Linux Undercover

Velcro Industries B.V. Velcro

Corporation Referenced trademarks and products

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