IXIA FCMGXM Load Modules

This chapter provides details about FCMGXM family of load modules specifications and features.

The FCMGXM family of high speed load modules delivers high-density, 2/4/8G fibre channel test solution. These load modules deliver high-density converged data center infrastructure for testing end-to-end Fibre Channel and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) testing. The fibre channel load module comes with four or eight ports and each port can be configured to run at 2, 4, or 8 G speeds.

The 4-port and 8-port FCMGXM load modules deliver complete FC-2 and FCP data plane capabilities and performance.

One of the modules in this family, the FCMGXM8, is shown in the following figure.

Figure: FCMGXM Load Module

Part Numbers

The part numbers are shown in the following table.

Part Numbers for FCMGXM Modules
Load Module Part Numbers Description

FCMGXM4

950-0001 FCMGXM4S-01

4-Port Fibre Channel Load Module, with 2 Gbps, 4 Gbps and 8 Gbps support and SFP+ interface. It requires one or more SFP+ transceiver options.

FCMGXM8

950-0002 FCMGXM8S-01

8-Port Fibre Channel Load Module, with 2 Gbps, 4 Gbps and 8 Gbps support and SFP+ interface. It requires one or more SFP+ transceiver options.

Specifications

The load module specifications are contained in the following table.

FCMGXM Load Module Specifications
Feature Specification

Load Modules

FCMGXM8/FCMGXM4

Number of ports per module

8/4

Number of chassis slots per module

1

Maximum ports per chassis

Note: XM12 High Performance chassis is required for 88 ports to be installed in a single chassis. Up to eleven 8-port load modules are supported in an XM12 High Performance chassis, and up to 8 8-port load modules are supported in a standard XM12 chassis. The XM2 chassis supports up to 16 ports.

Supported transceivers

SFP+ Tri-rate 2/4/8G duplex LC connector 850nm multimode 1310 single mode.

Per-port CPU speed and memory

800 MHz, 1 GB/1 GHz, 1 GB.

Per-port capture buffer

512 MB

Interface speeds

2/4/8G FC

FC-1 Primitives

Yes

FC-2 Protocols

Yes

FCP Support

Yes

Number of transmit flows per port (sequential values)

Billions

Number of transmit flows per port (arbitrary values)

1 million

Number of trackable receive flows per port

1 million

Number of stream definitions per port

256

In packet stream (sequential) or advanced stream (interleaved) mode, each stream definition can generate millions of unique traffic flows.

Table UDF

1 million entries.

Comprehensive packet editing function for emulating large numbers of flows. Entries of up to 256 bytes, using lists of values can be specified and placed at designated offsets within a stream. Each list consists of an offset, a size, and a list of values in a table format.

Packet flow statistics

Tracks 1 million flows.

Transmit engine

Wire-speed packet generation with timestamps, sequence numbers, data integrity signature, and packet group signatures.

Receive engine

Wire-speed packet filtering, capturing, real-time latency, and inter-arrival time for each packet group, data integrity, and sequence checking.

User defined field features

Fixed, increment, or decrement by user-defined step, value lists, range lists, cascade, random, and chained fields.

Filters

2x128-bit user-definable pattern and offset, frame length range, CRC error, data integrity error, and sequence checking error (small, big, reverse).

Data field per stream

Fixed, increment (byte/word), decrement (byte/word), random, repeating, user-specified, CJPAT, and CRPAT fields.

Error generation

CRC (good/bad), oversize frame, parity error, and R_RDY errors.

Latency measurements

20 nanoseconds resolution in packet timestamp.

Statistics

The new statistics are as follows:

  • Link State and speed
  • (Tx) Bytes, Frames, (count and rate)
  • (Rx) Bytes, Frames, (count and rate)
  • (Rx) CRC errors, Oversize (2112), Undersize (24) (count and rate)
  • Packet group Latency
  • Data Integrity
  • Capture Trigger/Filter (count and rate)
  • User Defined Stats: 6 (count and rate)
  • Protocol Server Tx/Rx (count and rate)
  • Remote B-B Credit Value
  • Remote B-B Credit Count
  • R_RDY Tx/Rx (count and rate)
  • Disparity errors (count and rate)
  • Stats: Port CPU status
  • Transmit Duration
  • Invalid EOF Count/Rate
  • Code Error Count/Rate
  • FLOGI Sent
  • FLOGI LS_ACC received
  • FLOGO Sent
  • PLOGI Sent
  • PLOGI LS_ACC received
  • PLOGI Request received
  • PLOGO Sent
  • PLOGO Received
  • FDISC Sent
  • FDISC LS_ACC Received
  • NS Registration Sent
  • NS Registration Successful
  • NxPort Enabled
  • NxPort-IDs Acquired
  • NS Query Sent
  • NS Query Successful
  • PRLI Sent
  • PRLI Successful
  • PRLI Received
  • RSCN Received
  • RSCN Acc Transmitted
  • SCR Transmitted
  • SCR Acc Received

Operating temperature range

41°F to 95°F (5°C to 35°C), ambient air.