Brocade X6 Director X6-8 vs Cisco MDS 9718
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Brocade X6-8 is the larger of the two Gen 6 Fibre Channel directors, a 14U chassis that takes up to eight port or extension blades and scales to 512 ports of 32 Gb/s plus 32 ICL ports. The Cisco MDS 9718 is a massive 26U 18-slot director-class SAN switch built for the largest enterprise data centers and private clouds in the world.
| Brocade X6 Director X6-8 | Cisco MDS 9718 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Brocade | Cisco |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Jul 2016 | Mar 2016 |
| Form factor | 14U | chassis |
| Ports | Up to 512x 32 Gb/s Fibre Channel device ports plus 32x 128 Gb/s UltraScale ICL ports | — |
| Switching capacity | 20.5 Tb/s per chassis | Up to 98Tbps aggregate system bandwidth |
| Form factor | 14U rackmount, 12 blade slots | — |
| Power typical (W) | 2,933 | — |
| Power max (W) | 5,380 | — |
| Weight kg | 145.8 | — |
| Blades | FC32-48, FC32-64, SX6 and core routing blades CR32-8 | — |
| Chassis form factor | — | 26U 18-slot modular chassis (2 supervisor slots and 16 payload slots) |
| Port capacity | — | Up to 768 line-rate Fibre Channel ports |
| Port speeds | — | 64Gbps, 32Gbps, 16Gbps, 10GbE/40GbE FCIP |
| Supervisors | — | Dual redundant Supervisor-4 or Supervisor-1 modules |
| Power supply | — | Up to 16x 3000W redundant power supplies |
| Management | — | Cisco NDFC and CLI |
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