Regarding How to poulate the slots of Brocade DCX

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I want to know the best practices to populate the slots of DCX backbone Director. I have four Brocade DCX backbone director.Each of the director has ordered with four number of  FC8-32 blades.I want to know what will be the order to fill the Director.As I know I have 8 empty slots 1,2,3,4 and 9,10,11 and 12.

[Antonio Bongiorno T…]

Simply is to populate Blade in Slot 1-4

see FC4_8-48 Port Index

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[Anonymous]

Hi Naren,

from a practical point of view, it will be easier to access / change SFPs and cables if you populate slot 1, 4 9 and 12 : you will have more space, especially if you plan to use all ports.

Kind regards,

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david

[Anonymous]

Hi naren-kumar.banerjee,

the slots 1-4 and 9-12 are technically equal, so any particular order is a matter of personal preference and (like dmercier pointed out) ease of access/maintenance.

Hope this helps a bit,

Linar

[Anonymous]

Thank You So much , I appreceate your answers.

[Anonymous]

David,

You are right with the SFP and cable management.

But if you split the cards you will lose a bit of the comfort of the portrange function of some commands.

If you put in the cards in slot 1-4 you have all ports in only two ranges.

0-63 and 128-191.

In your case you have six ranges.

Sometimes it is helpful to use the portrange commands.

Andreas

[alexey.stepanov]

i thought most of the port-range-enabled commands have option to silently skip nonexistent ports...