Brocade Certified Fabric Designer (BCFD)

This certification replaces BCSD. It represents mastery of the concepts and subtleties involved with building a Data Center Fabric (DCF) from basic components through the integration of industry applications and state-of-the-art storage components. As a Brocade Certified Fabric Designer, you must exhibit a detailed understanding of DCF design as well as expertise in implementing complete DCF solutions using the latest technologies.

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As a Brocade Certified Fabric Designer you will be expected to identify and understand key DCF Design concepts, identify trade-off’s involving manageability, availability, scalability, and performance to create a successful DCF design to suit requirements, and understand and translate the DCF architecture into a deployment plan, including integration into existing DCF environments. To achieve this level of Certification, you are required to pass one exam.

Data Collection

• Given a scenario, design a solution that meets the customer's requirements
• Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of resiliency, redundancy, HA, and locality
• Given a scenario, describe the various documents required in the design assessment

Management and Monitoring Tools

• Given a scenario, describe how to satisfy a specific monitoring requirement
• Demonstrate knowledge of Brocade management tools

Hardware/Software Products and Features

• Demonstrate knowledge of interoperability of B-Series/M-Series products
• Given a scenario, describe Brocade hardware products and their purpose
• Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of Brocade software features and purpose

Distance Solutions

• Given availability, performance and distance requirements, design an appropriate long distance solution using Fibre Channel
• Given a specific set of requirements, demonstrate ability to design a SAN extension solution using FCIP

Performance Tuning Optimization

• Given a performance scenario, determine an appropriate solution
• Describe strategies for maximizing throughput in a Data Center Fabric

Migration and Integration

• Given an existing fabric, identify migration strategies to upgrade the fabric with new technology
• Given a set of existing fabrics and network devices, determine a consolidation plan that minimizes disruption
• Describe the requirements to integrate a Brocade DCX Backbone into an existing M-Series fabric

Security

• Identify requirements for restricting which switches/devices may join a fabric
• Identify security features to restrict administrative access to a switch

• Certification Study Tools

  • BCAF in a Nutshell Study Guide (1.8 MB)

  • BCEFE in a Nutshell Study Guide (2 MB)

  • BCFA in a Nutshell 16 Gbps Study Guide (1.9 MB)

  • BCFA in a Nutshell 8 Gbps Study Guide (1.8 MB)

  • BCFCoEP in a Nutshell Study Guide (1.1 MB)

  • BCFD in a Nutshell Study Guide (3.5 MB)

  • BCFP in a Nutshell 16 Gbps Study Guide (780.4 KB)

  • BCFP in a Nutshell 2010 Study Guide (732.8 KB)

  • BCLE in a Nutshell Study Guide (1.7 MB)

  • BCLP in a Nutshell Study Guide (822.8 KB)

  • BCND in a Nutshell Study Guide (1.2 MB)

  • BCNE in a Nutshell Study Guide (1.4 MB)

  • BCNP in a Nutshell Study Guide (695 KB)

  • BCSPNE in a Nutshell Study Guide (1.4 MB)

• Course Data Sheets

  • AFS 133 Implementing iSCSI with the FC4-16IP Blade (126.4 KB)

  • AFS 137 Introduction to the FC10-6 Director Blade (119.9 KB)

  • AFS 138 Introduction to the Brocade 7600 and FA4-18, Hardware and Software (133.2 KB)

  • AFS 141 Introduction to Brocade Virtual Fabrics (188.2 KB)

  • BiG 100 Introduction to the Brocade iSCSI Gateway (121.4 KB)

  • CFD 201 8 Gbit/sec BCFD Knowledge Assessment (271.1 KB)

  • DCFM 200 Data Center Fabric Manager (220.1 KB)

  • DCX 100 Introduction to DCX Data Center Backbone (109.5 KB)

  • DCX 110 Brocade DCX Data Center Backbone Break and Fix (120.7 KB)

  • EM 101 Introduction to Fabric OS and M-EOS Element Manager (185.5 KB)

  • ENC 101 Introduction to Brocade Encyption (190 KB)

  • ETH 101 Internetworking Fundamentals for Brocade Training (197.4 KB)

  • ETH 503 IronView Network Management (192.1 KB)

  • FC 101 Introduction to Fibre Channel Concepts (188.4 KB)