Brocade Communications Systems PowerConnect Brocade 6510 Quick user guide

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Brocade 6510

Hardware Reference Manual

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Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated

Document History

Corporate and Latin American Headquarters

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

130 Holger Way

San Jose, CA 95134

Tel: 1-408-333-8000

Fax: 1-408-333-8101

E-mail: inf[email protected]

Asia-Pacific Headquarters

Brocade Communications Systems China HK, Ltd.

No. 1 Guanghua Road

Chao Yang District

Units 2718 and 2818

Beijing 100020, China

Tel: +8610 6588 8888

Fax: +8610 6588 9999

E-mail: [email protected]

European Headquarters

Brocade Communications Switzerland Sàrl

Centre Swissair

Tour B - 4ème étage

29, Route de l'Aéroport

Case Postale 105

CH-1215 Genève 15

Switzerland

Tel: +41 22 799 5640

Fax: +41 22 799 5641

E-mail: emea-inf[email protected]m

Asia-Pacific Headquarters

Brocade Communications Systems Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen WFOE)

Citic Plaza

No. 233 Tian He Road North

Unit 1308 – 13th Floor

Guangzhou, China

Tel: +8620 3891 2000

Fax: +8620 3891 2111

E-mail: [email protected]

Document Title Publication Number Summary of Changes Date

Brocade 6510 Hardware Reference Manual 53-1002174-01 New document April 2011

Brocade 6510 Hardware Reference Manual 53-1002174-02 Updated data

transmission ranges and

SFP information. Added

China class A statement.

June 2011

Brocade 6510 Hardware Reference Manual 53-1002174-03 Updated Setting a static

IP address.

August 2011

Brocade 6510 Hardware Reference Manual 53-1002174-04 Updated numbering on

one graphic, corrected

several typos.

September 2011

Brocade 6510 Hardware Reference Manual 53-1002174-05 BSMI compliance

statement updated.

October 2011

Brocade 6510 Hardware Reference Manual 53-1002174-06 Chinese regulatory

statement added

May 2012

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Contents

About This Document

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Supported hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

What’s new in this document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Text formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Command syntax conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Command examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Notes, cautions, and warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

Brocade resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

Other industry resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

Getting technical help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

ESD precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Safety notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv

Chapter 1 Brocade 6510 Introduction

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

Brocade 6510 overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Platform capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Platform components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Port side of the Brocade 6510 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Nonport side of the Brocade 6510 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Chapter 2 Brocade 6510 Installation and Configuration

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

Items included with the Brocade 6510 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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

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Standalone installation for a Brocade 6510 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Cabinet installation for a Brocade 6510 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Brocade 6510 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 (ISL) Trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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

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

Chapter 3 Brocade 6510 Operation

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

Powering the Brocade 6510 on and off. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

LED activity interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Brocade 6510 LEDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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

LED patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

POST and boot specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

POST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Boot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Interpreting POST results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Brocade 6510 Maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Installing an SFP+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Brocade 6510 Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Chapter 4 Removal and replacement of power supplies and fans

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Removing and replacing a power supply and fan assembly . . . . . .25

Appendix A Brocade 6510 Specifications

In this appendix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Weight and physical dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Facility requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Power supply specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Environmental requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

General specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Data transmission ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Memory specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Fibre Channel port specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

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Serial port specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Access Gateway default port mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Regulatory compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

FCC warning (US only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

KCC statement (Republic of Korea) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

VCCI statement Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Power cords (Japan Denan). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

China statement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

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

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

Canadian requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

German statement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Laser compliance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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

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

Regulatory certifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Environmental regulation compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

China RoHS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Index

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About This Document

In this chapter

•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

•Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

•What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

•Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

•Additional information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

•Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

•Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv

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 6510 Introduction” provides an overview of the Brocade 6510 switch, a

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

•Chapter 2, “Brocade 6510 Installation and Configuration” provides the information needed to

install the switch into your network.

•Chapter 3, “Brocade 6510 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 6510 Specifications” provides tables of physical, environmental,and

general specifications, helpful for quick lookup.

•The Index points you to the exact pages on which specific information is located.

Supported hardware and software

This document includes information specific to the Brocade 6510 running Brocade Fabric OS

version 5.3.0. and later.

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What’s new in this document

•The Chinese regulatory statement has been added. “China statement.”

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 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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