System Specifications - Lenovo B6505 Product Manual

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System specifications

The following table lists the Lenovo B6505 and B6510 system specifications.
Table 1. System specifications
Component
Specification
Form factor
Standalone or 1U rack mount
Ports
Media types
8 Gb FC and 16 Gb SFP+ transceivers: short-wave (SW), long-wave (LW), extended
long-wave (ELW).
10 Gb FC SFP+ transceivers (Lenovo B6510 only; require Integrated 10G FC license): short-
wave (SW), long-wave (LW).
Port speeds
2/4/8 Gbps auto-sensing, full-duplex (8 Gb FC SFP+ transceivers)
4/8/10 Gbps auto-sensing, full-duplex (10 Gb FC SFP+ transceivers; Lenovo B6510
only)
4/8/16 Gbps auto-sensing, full-duplex (16 Gb FC SFP+ transceivers)
FC port types
Full Fabric mode: FL_Port, F_Port, M_Port (Mirror Port), E_Port, D_Port (Diagnostic
Port).
Access Gateway mode: F_Port and NPIV-enabled N_Port.
Data traffic types
Unicast (Class 2 and Class 3), multicast (Class 3 only), broadcast (Class 3 only).
Classes of service Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames).
Standard software Full Fabric mode, Access Gateway, Advanced Zoning, Adaptive Networking, Advanced
Diagnostic Tools, Virtual Fabrics (Lenovo B6510 only), In-flight Compression (Lenovo B6510
only), In-flight Encryption (Lenovo B6510 only).
Optional software ISL Trunking, Fabric Vision, Extended Fabric, Integrated Routing (Lenovo B6510 only),
Integrated 10G FC (Lenovo B6510 only).
Performance
Non-blocking architecture with wire-speed forwarding of traffic:
Scalability
Cooling
Two fans built into each power supply; 2+2 cooling redundancy with two power supplies. Non-
port to port side airflow.
Power supply
Up to two redundant hot-swap 150 W AC (100 - 240 V) power supplies (IEC 320-C14
connector).
Lenovo B6505 and B6510 FC SAN Switches
B6505: Up to 24 SFP/SFP+ ports. 12 ports licensed by default; 12x 8 Gb or 16 Gb FC
SWL SFP+ modules included with the switch; optional 12-port activation bundle
(license pack + 8 Gb or 16 Gb FC SWL SFP+ modules).
B6510: Up to 48 SFP/SFP+ ports. 24 ports licensed by default; up to two optional 12-
port activation bundles (license pack + 8 Gb or 16 Gb FC SWL SFP+ modules).
2.125 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex
4.25 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex
8.5 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex
10.51875 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex (Lenovo B6510 only)
14.025 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex
Aggregated throughput
B6505: 384 Gbps
B6510: 768 Gbps
Up to 0.7 microseconds local switching latency
Forward error correction (FEC): Adds up to 0.4 microseconds between E_Ports
Encryption/compression: Adds up to 5.5 microseconds per node
Maximum number of switches in the fabric: 239
Maximum frame size: 2,112-byte payload
Maximum number of frame buffers per switch: 8,192
Maximum number of ports per ISL trunk: 8 (Requires an optional license)
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