Brocade 5300 80-Port, 8 Gbps Fibre Channel SAN Switch
The Brocade 5300 switch is designed to consolidate connectivity in rapidly growing mission-critical environments — combining 1, 2, 4 and 8 Gb/s technology in configurations of 48, 64 or 80 ports in an efficiently designed 2U package.
The combination of density, performance and 'pay-as-you-grow' scalability can increase server and storage utilization while reducing complexity for virtualized servers and storage. The evolutionary design makes the Brocade 5300 very efficient in power, cooling and rack density to help enable medium- and large-scale server and storage consolidation.
The Brocade 5300 also includes Adaptive Networking capabilities, which are designed to manage resources more efficiently in highly consolidated environments while providing high service levels to data-center applications.
Brocade 5300 Specifications:
Fibre Channel ports
- 48-, 64-, and 80-port configurations (16-port increments via Ports on Demand [PoD] licenses); (E_, F_, M_, EX_, and FL_) ports
Scalability
- Full–fabric architecture with 239 switches maximum
Certified maximum
- Single Brocade FOS fabric: 56 domains, 19 hops
- Single Brocade M-Enterprise OS (M-EOS) fabric: 31 domains, 3 hops
- Larger fabrics certified as required; consult Brocade or OEM SAN design documents for configuration details
Performance
- 1.063 Gbps line speed (full duplex); 2.125 Gbps line speed (full duplex); 4.25 Gbps line speed (full duplex); 8.5 Gbps line speed (full duplex); auto-sensing of 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gbps port speeds; optionally programmable to fixed port speed; speed matching between 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gbps ports
ISL Trunking
- Brocade Frame-based Trunking with up to eight 8 Gbps ports per ISL trunk with optional license; up to 64 Gbps per ISL trunk (8 ports × 8 Gbps [data rate])
- Exchange-based load balancing across ISLs with DPS included in Brocade Fabric OS
Aggregate bandwidth
- 640 Gbps: 80 ports × 8 Gbps (data rate)
Fabric latency
- Locally switched ports 700 ns, latency between port groups less than 2.1 μsec with no contention, cut-through routing at 8 Gbps between locally switched groups
Maximum frame size
- 2112-byte payload
Frame buffers
- 1460 dynamically allocated, 268 maximum per port
Classes of service
- Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames)
Port types
- FL_Port, F_Port, M_Port (Mirror Port), E_Port, EX_Port (Fibre Channel Integrated Routing); optional port type control
Data traffic types
- Fabric switches supporting unicast, multicast (255 groups), and broadcast
USB
- 1 USB port for firmware download, support save, and configuration upload/download
Media types
- 8 Gbps: Brocade 5300 requires Brocade hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 8 Gbps SWL, LWL, ELWL
- 4 Gbps: Brocade 5300 requires Brocade hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 4 Gbps SWL, LWL, ELWL
