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Introduction 1-1

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The Dell™ PowerVault™ 51F is an 8-port Fibre Channel switch that consists of a sys-

tem board, microprocessor board, connectors for supporting up to four dual-port

interface cards, and firmware for building and managing a fabric. A

fabric

is an active,

intelligent, and nonshared interconnect scheme for Fibre Channel server and storage

nodes. One or more switches interconnected create a Fibre Channel fabric.

Figure 1-1 shows the switch view of a PowerVault 51F.

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This chapter discusses:

 PowerVault 51F switch features

 Performance

 Manageability

 Reliability

 Serviceability

 System components

 Switching function

 Embedded port

 System firmware

 Universal ports

 Short-wave laser (SWL) fiber-optic gigabit interface converter (GBIC) module

 Long-wave laser (LWL) fiber-optic GBIC module

 Copper GBIC module

 Hot-pluggable power supplies

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