Lenovo X7-8 Gen 7 Fibre Channel Director

Maximize performance, simplify SAN management

Supports up to 384 64Gb ports or 512 32Gb ports
Total bandwidth of 39.6Tb/s
Link speeds of 8, 10, 16, 32, and 64Gb FC auto-sensing
Hot swap redundant power supplies and fan trays
Autonomous SAN infrastructure for self-learning, self-optimizing, and self-healing capabilities
Safeguard mission-critical workloads from vulnerabilities with Gen 7 integrated security

X7-8 Gen 7 Fibre Channel Director angled front-facing view

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Features

Multi-faceted and agile

The versatile Lenovo X7-8 Gen 7 Fibre Channel Director is designed to meet relentless growth and large enterprise environments. Its highly scalable extension solution for FC, IP, and FICON gives businesses the agility to keep growing as their IT needs change. With its backwards-compatibility support, it helps enterprises manage their need for constant change. A roomy 14U form factor gives the Lenovo X7-8 Gen 7 Fibre Channel Director the ability to grow or scale back networks as needed.

Results-driven performance

With an industry-leading Gen 7 FC the Lenovo X7-8 Gen 7 Fibre Channel Director increases performance for demanding workloads. It can handle up to 39.6Tb/s of bandwidth to manage the most demanding applications while maximizing high transaction workloads with 50% lower network latency. Businesses can rely on its ability to operate data-intensive app response times and enable improved Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

Network design simplified

Automate actions to simplify management and resolve issues while leveraging optical Inter-Chassis Links (ICLs) that enable businesses to reduce network complexity and costs. By reducing inter-switch cabling by 75% and freeing up to 25% of ports for servers and storage, the Lenovo X7-8 Gen 7 Fibre Channel Director simplifies management and storage connectivity. Seamlessly integrate next-generation NVMe into the storage fabric without a disruptive rip-and-replace.

Tech Specs

Base Model	X7-8 includes: Two core routing blades Two control processor modules 4-port rail kits Software (Fabric Vision, Trunking, Extended Fabrics, Integrated routing, and CUP)
Chassis	Eight open-blade slots
Fibre Channel Blade	48-port blade with 48 64G Fibre Channel SFP+ transceivers or 48 32G SFP+ transceivers 64-port blade with 32 2x64G Fibre Channel SWL SFP-DD transceivers for 64 64G connections
Extension Blades	SX6 Extension Blade provides Fibre Channel extension (16×32Gb Fibre Channel ports) and IP extension over IP networks (16×1GbE/10GbE and 2×40GbE ports)
Performance	8/10/16/32/64Gb line speed, full duplex. Autosensing of 8/16/32/64Gb port speeds depending on SFPs used, support for speed matching. 10Gb port speeds with dedicated SFPs
Multi-chassis with UltraScale ICL Ports	Up to 2304 Fibre Channel ports; UltraScale ICL ports (16 per 4-slot chassis, optical QSFP) connects up to 9 chassis in a full-mesh topology or up to 12 chassis in a core-edge topology
Chassis Bandwidth	39.6Tb/s per chassis with 512 device ports + 32 UltraScale ICL connections supporting 128 ports.
Chassis Power	Four PSUs for 2+2 redundancy Choice of AC or High Voltage PSUs
Cooling	Requires 3 fan tray assemblies
Airflow	Choice of non-port side intake or non-port side exhaust PSUs and fan trays
Solution Availability	Designed to provide 99.999% uptime capabilities Hot-pluggable redundant power supplies, fans, WWN cards, processors, core switching, port blades, and optics Online diagnostics Non-disruptive firmware download and activation
Enclosure	14U rack-mountable chassis It also comes standard with a 1U airflow diversion rack-mount kit making the total chassis 15U
Dimensions (H x W x D)	61.23cm x 43.74cm x 61.04cm (24.11" x 17.23" x 24.04")

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