Managing Cables; Using The Optional Hp Storageworks Dc San Director Inter-Chassis Link (Icl) Cable Kit - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Hardware Reference Manual

• FC8-32 port blade—ports are numbered from 0 through 15 from bottom to top on the left set of
ports and 16 through 31 from bottom to top on the right set of ports.
• FC8-48 port blade—ports are numbered from 0 through 23 from bottom to top on the left set of
ports and 24 through 47 from bottom to top on the right set of ports.
• FC10-6 port blade—ports are numbered from 0 through 5 from bottom to top.
• FR4-18i router blade—the sixteen physical FC ports on this blade are numbered 0 through 15
from bottom to top. The two GbE ports are numbered from the bottom as Ge0 and Ge1. These
ports, when fully configured, enable sixteen VE_Ports or VEX _Ports and appear in the switchShow
command as ports 16 through 31.

Managing cables

The cable management comb (see
door and allows for simple cable management. The comb can be installed without service disruption.
Route cables down in front of the blades to keep LEDs visible. Leave at least one meter of slack for
each fiber optic cable to provide room to remove and replace blades.
IMPORTANT:
Do not route the cables in front of the air exhaust vent, which is located at the top of the port side of
the chassis.
If ISL Trunking is in use, group the cables by trunking group. The ports are color-coded to indicate
which ports can be used in the same ISL Trunking group: eight ports marked with solid black ovals
alternate with eight ports marked with oval outlines. See
cable speeds and distances.
Using the optional HP StorageWorks DC SAN Director
Inter-Chassis Link (ICL) cable kit
You can purchase the optional HP StorageWorks DC SAN Director Inter-Chassis Link (ICL) cable kit,
HP part number AK862A. The kit increases the number of ports by interconnecting two DC SAN
Director chassis.
The ICL cables and the ICL connectors (see
installation.
Figure 11 through
ICL cables in one of the configurations shown.
NOTE:
Connect the cables from the top connectors (ICL 1) of the CR8 blades in the first chassis to the bottom
connectors (ICL 0) of the CR8 blades in the second chassis. Similarly, connect the cables from the
bottom connectors (ICL 0) of the CR8 blades in the first chassis to the top connectors (ICL 1) of the
CR8 blades in the second chassis.
The cables can cross between the slot 5 CR8 blade and the slot 8 CR8 blade as long as the
top-to-bottom rule is followed.
Figure 1
Figure 14 show the acceptable cabling configurations for the option. Connect the
HP StorageWorks DC and DC04 SAN Backbone Director Switches
on page 21) is attached to the chassis under the chassis
Table 52 on page 222 for a listing of supported
Figure 10) are color-coded and labeled for ease of
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