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Brocade 5300 Hardware Reference Manual 1

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Chapter

Brocade 5300 Introduction

In this chapter

•Brocade 5300 overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

•Port side of the Brocade 5300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

•Non-port side of the Brocade 5300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

•Ports on Demand license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

•Brocade Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Brocade 5300

overview

The Brocade 5300 is an 80-port 1, 2, 4, or 8 Gbps Fibre Channel switch that delivers Brocade sixth

generation ASIC technology and architecture for Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs). The

Brocade 5300 is designed for the needs of enterprise environments that require a high-port

footprint for port aggregation.

With its high auto-sensing port count and ports-on-demand flexibility, the Brocade 5300 is an ideal

solution as a fan-out switch from a director core, or as the core switch in a fabric. The Brocade

5300 satisfies demanding Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS), performance and

scalability requirements of an enterprise switch while delivering interoperability and ease-of-use

advantages found only in the Brocade product family. The Brocade 5300 is the latest enterprise

offering from the Brocade family of entry-to-enterprise products, and offers the following features

and capabilities:

• Up to 80 auto-sensing ports of high-performance 8 Gbps technology in a single domain.

• Ports On Demand scaling from 48 to 64 or 80 ports.

• Full 1:1 subscription on all 80 ports at 8 Gbps.

• 1, 2, 4 and 8 Gbps auto-sensing Fibre Channel switch and router ports.

• FICON and FICON Control Unit Port ready.

• Fibre Channel Routing (FCR) service, which provides improved scalability and fault isolation,

along with multi-vendor interoperability through the optional Integrated Routing license.

• Two hot-swappable, redundant power supply FRUs.

• Three hot-swappable fan FRUs in an N+1 configuration to provide hardware-redundant cooling.

• Universal ports that self-configure as E, F, M or FL ports. Ex_Ports are activated on a per port

basis with the optional Integrated Routing license.

• An RJ45 Ethernet management port, in conjunction with EZSwitchSetup, that supports switch

IP address discovery and configuration, eliminating the need to attach a serial cable to

configure the switch IP address and greatly increasing the ease of use.

• USB port that provides storage for firmware updates, output of the supportSave command and

storage for configuration uploads and downloads.

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